http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/24121/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/biasalerts/nbc-edits-democratic-atlanta-mayor-out-snowstorm-controversy-blames-gop-governor <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/kyle-drennen">Kyle Drennen</a> </div> </div> </div> <p> At the top of Thursday's <em>NBC Nightly News</em>, anchor Brian Williams proclaimed that <strong>"the [Republican] governor of Georgia [Nathan Deal] chose to fall on his snow shovel"</strong> over how Tuesday's rare southern snowstorm "was handled, or better yet, mishandled" in the state. However, the coverage that followed failed to mention Atlanta's Democratic Mayor Kasim Reed by name even once. [<em>Listen to <a href="http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2013/2014-01-30-NBC-NN-Williams.mp3">the audio</a></em>]<br /> </p><div class='signature'><p>— Kyle Drennen is Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/kjdrennen" target="_blank">Follow Kyle Drennen on Twitter.</a></p></div><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/biasalerts/nbc-edits-democratic-atlanta-mayor-out-snowstorm-controversy-blames-gop-governor" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division Atlanta Brian Williams Kasim Reed Nathan Deal NBC Nightly News Snowstorm Tom Costello Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:31:06 +0000 kyle.drennen 45447 at http://archive2.mrc.org