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Uncategorized Friday, February 4th 2011 at 2:51 pm

NBC Fires Guy Who Posted That Today Show “What is the Internet?” Video

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Last week, a video of an old segment from 1994 on NBC’s The Today Show depicted media icons Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric cutely and hilariously trying to figure out what the Internet was. Not long after the video went viral, the original video was mysteriously pulled from YouTube by the person who actually posted it. Shortly after that, Rob Pegoraro sent out a tweet saying NBC fired the guy who posted the amusing, charming video. Both NBC and the poor guy who got canned haven’t really commented on the matter, but this is a fairly weird move of NBC–firing a guy who posted a video that was in no way harmful, or even posted in a negative light, and was more just a video showing how much our technology has changed and how quickly we’ve changed as a society.

(via Techdirt)

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  • http://goinglikesixty.com GoingLikeSixty

    Why do you ignore the former hottie Elizabeth Vargas when writing about this? She and BG have about the same visibility level currently – or did BG die and I missed it?

  • Pks29733steel

    Lets see, NBC fires a employee that posts a funny but yet historical (who in 1994 would think the web would be like it is… networks (NBC, CBS, ABC with thier shows and news on the web) using it, Major shopping chains with online stores, etc.) and detracks the video. So, now instead of FREE ADVERTISING, they are tarnished with the firing of a employee that did no harm. No more TODAY show, I’m deleting NBC from my remote and will be watching ABC for GOOD MORNING AMERICA. NBC, you made ONE DUMB MOVE!