NBC Produces "News" Story Promoting Farmer-Dating Web Site

Rich Noyes | December 2, 2014
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The December 1 edition of NBC Nightly News included a lengthy report that could easily have been a TV commercial for the dating Web site, FarmersOnly.com:

Anchor BRIAN WILLIAMS: Farming life isn't for everyone, and cultivating a meaningful relationship can be tough. That is where a new website comes in as we hear tonight from bona fide Midwesterner Harry Smith.
Correspondent HARRY SMITH: Adrift in a sea of soybeans, home alone on the range when your next door neighbor may be miles away, where do you turn for companionship?...Dawn and Kyle Heidlebaugh admit they were looking for love in all the wrong places until they found FarmersOnly.
DAWN HEIDLEBAUGH: I saw a commercial in the middle of the night. I was up. It said, what's that catch-phrase: 'City Folks Just Don't Get It.'

 

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