NBC Promotes BBC Reporter Calling Shooting ‘Just Another Day’ in U.S.

Kyle Drennen | December 3, 2015
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At the top of Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer seized on a BBC World News correspondent dismissing the San Bernardino shooting as “just another day” in America: “I don't often start coverage of an event like this by talking about how other people are covering it, but a commentator for the BBC said overnight, ‘Just another day in the United States – another day of guns, chaos, and panic. This time in the city of San Bernardino.’”
    
Later, in the 8 a.m. ET hour, correspondent Harry Smith used that remark as the premise of a full report on mass shootings: “Ours is the only nation in the civilized world where these events happen with this kind of numbing regularity. The BBC reported Wednesday's shooting as – ” A soundbite followed of the actual BBC report: “Just another day in the United States of America.”

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