To: NBC Nightly News
Mr. Llamas,
My wife and I have watched a recording of the NBC Nightly News together for decades. It has informed us and given us an opportunity to discuss and sometimes debate the events of the day.
We watched tonight’s broadcast in horror as you and your team attempted to take a “balanced” approach to the story about an ICE Agent killing a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis. Your reporting made it seem reasonable that the ICE agent had shot the woman based upon her driving her SUV toward the ICE officer. You should revisit any and all physics classes that you or your team have taken in the past and recognize that if the ICE agent shot her through her open driver’s side window, the ICE officer could not have been in front of the vehicle at that moment. This was unadulterated murder and you had a responsibility to this U.S. citizen, her family and the U.S. public to report this from a position of facts.
This leads me to believe that, had you been reporting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, you would have sided with the insurrectionists being on a “tour of the Capitol.”
Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Roger Mudd, David Brinkley, John Chancellor, Morton Dean, Sam Donaldson, Hugh Downs, Chet Huntley, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Charles Kuralt, Jim Lehrer, Robert MacNeil and every other prior journalist worth their stripes must be spinning in their graves about the egregious affront to journalistic integrity that you and your team foisted on the American public.
Shame on you. I just deleted our nightly recording of the NBC Nightly News broadcast and am committed to never watching you again. I realize that one household makes little to no difference to you, but I am a man of integrity and can only do my small part to correct the ills in the world. You had the opportunity to be a force for good with fair and balanced journalism for a new generation and you spoiled that opportunity.
Tom Northey
Oak Park
