NBC won't retaliate over rape victim parody. (Media).MAYBE NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. executives can take a joke Verb 1. take a joke - listen to a joke at one's own expense; "Can't you take a joke?" brook, endure, tolerate, stomach, abide, bear, digest, stick out, suffer, put up, stand, support - put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant . Network officials said they weren't planning on taking legal action against New Times Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Following the publication of a made-up story, which claimed NBC had signed the two Lancaster teens abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point last month to host their own prime-time reality show. "We have no plans to pursue a lawsuit at this time although we reserve the right to do so," said NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks. Tamara Brooks and Jacqueline Marris were abducted and raped by Roy Ratliff, who was shot dead by law enforcement officials just hours after the kidnapping. Days later, the girls made an appearance on NBC's "Today" show. New Times featured a piece in its Aug. 15 issue by "Antoine Oman" that said NBC was signing the girls to host a mid-season replacement tentatively titled "SurviveThis!" The show was described as a contest in which teens. would be placed in a remote location with paroled sex offenders and be forced to make it to safety. The joke generated a flood of response--and not everyone realized it was a parody. Even Internet muckraker muckraker Any of a group of U.S. writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé literature. The term, first used derisively, originated in an allusion Theodore Roosevelt made in 1906 to a passage in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress about a man with a muckrake Matt Drudge fell for it, according to New Times Editor Rick Barrs. The paper responded by printing a second gag story, this one claiming fictitious freelance writer Oman had been fired for fabricating the NBC story. "We were just trying to pimp NBC a little bit for their fawning fawn 1 intr.v. fawned, fawn·ing, fawns 1. To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing. 2. coverage of these two rape victims. There's just something a little unsavory about that, putting these two girls on TV," Barrs said. "Our whole point is, if these had been fat, ugly rape victims, we doubt N:BC would be all over them like that. |
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