Text 2240, 69 rader
Skriven 2004-09-14 19:48:00 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: NBC
===========
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/624qur
ho.asp

Likely Bedfellows 
If it's good enough for 60 Minutes, it's good enough for the DNC. 
by Stephen F. Hayes 
09/14/2004 3:30:00 PM 
 

Update 6:05 p.m.: Late Thursday afternoon, NBC News and CBS News 
requested that that the Democratic National Committee pull the campaign 
video in question. The DNC, through a spokesman, says that the matter is 
under consideration.

NBC released a statement Tuesday afternoon. "The Democratic National 
Committee (DNC) has included an edited excerpt from a Meet the Press 
interview with President Bush that was broadcast on February 8, 2004 as 
part of their promotional campaign to be used as a web video and shown 
in battleground states. NBC News does not authorize its copyrighted 
footage to be used for partisan political purposes. NBC News did not, 
and does not, license use of our material for these purposes and we have 
asked the DNC to cease and desist immediately from using the excerpt."

CBS spokeswoman Sandy Genelius told THE WEEKLY STANDARD late Tuesday 
afternoon that CBS, like NBC, will demand that the Democratic National 
Committee stop using CBS News footage in the new ad. "We do not want 
them to use the video and we are taking it up with them," said Genelius.

Jano Cabrera, a spokesman for the DNC, says the matter is under 
consideration. "We are aware of the request[s] and we are looking at it. 
Our current understanding is that we have the right to use the limited 
excerpts in the video. But we are looking at it." See the full original 
story below.


A NEW attack ad from the Democratic National Committee features footage 
lifted from the much-disputed 60 Minutes segment aired by CBS News last 
Wednesday and from an interview last February from NBC's Meet the Press. 
When the Bush-Cheney campaign in February used footage from an interview 
President Bush gave NBC's Meet the Press, the network immediately 
demanded that the campaign pull the ad. 

"NBC News did not, and does not, authorize this misuse of our 
copyrighted material," the network said in its February 10 statement. 
"As a news interview program, 'Meet the Press' takes very seriously the 
unauthorized use of its content for partisan political purposes."

NBC lawyers are working on a formal letter asking the DNC to pull the 
ad. Will CBS do the same? CBS spokeswomen Sandy Genelius and Kelli 
Edwards did not return telephone and emailed requests for comment. (The 
smart move, of course, would be for CBS to follow NBC's lead and demand 
that the ad be pulled or, at least, that the 60 Minutes footage be 
edited out.) 

It is not unusual or illegal for political campaigns to use television 
footage under the protection of the "fair use" doctrine. But the Bush 
campaign ad was rather bland compared to the new ad from the DNC. It was 
a positive ad in which President Bush defends his conduct of U.S. 
foreign policy. Says Bush: 


America has a responsibility in this world to lead, a responsibility to 
lead in the war against terror, a responsibility to speak clearly about 
the threats that we all face, a responsibility to promote freedom to 
free people from the clutches of barbaric people such as Saddam Hussein 
who tortured and mutilated. There were mass graves that we had found.

--- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 10
 * Origin:  (1:226/600)