A Responsible News Organization Consults Its Lawyer

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Submitted by Retired NYC Attorney (United States), Dec 27, 2012 19:08

The idea of "staffers" of MEET THE PRESS calling the police or, as another report has it, the ATF, to ask if NBC's David Gregory could show a 30-round rifle magazine on air strikes me as very bizarre.

In my younger years, I was an attorney at a law firm one of whose clients was the most serious American newspaper at that time and now -- and I don't mean The New York Times. When that august newspaper needed legal advice, its editors called the law firm, which was on retainer 24/7.

Why NBC's staffers were calling the D.C. police or the ATF instead of the law firm NBC, one assumes, retains, is beyond me. It is bizarre. What serious person, represented by counsel, would do such a thing? It sounds like an example of the inmates being in charge of the asylum to have "staffers" deciding whom to consult about a legal matter.

If NBC News doesn't have a law firm on retainer, it should, as this strange episode amply demonstrates.

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Title	By	Date
⇒ A Responsible News Organization Consults Its Lawyer [w/response] [172 words]	Retired NYC Attorney	Dec 27, 2012 19:08
prosecute [6 words]	D'Wayne Stude	Dec 27, 2012 01:14
David Gregory and NBC [41 words]	Doug Mahoney	Dec 26, 2012 21:30

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