I try to be nonpartisan here and my interest in this story is to shed some possible insight into the thinking of NBC attempt at showmanship and the follow-on consequences. I bring noted media critic @HowardKurtz’s opinion into what the District of Columbia police should do in response to David Gregory’s showing a magazine clip for a semi-automatic gun that is illegal to possess in that district where the show was taped.

I bring it up is for two reasons: First, the very fact that it has gotten any sort of play is due to the many voices of the Internet bringing up what would have been ignored by the media in the past. Continue reading →