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Step 1 is now complete," a portentous voice proclaims in one oft-run commercial for MSNBC, the all-news channel from Microsoft Corp. and NBC that debuted to much fanfare last week. But Step 1--putting a professional-looking news operation on the air, with plenty of glitz and gab and good-looking TV personalities--was easy. The hard part came when news broke...
Brian Williams, one of NBC's rising stars, was anchoring the channel's hour-long evening newscast Wednesday night when reports began filtering in about an aircraft exploding off the coast of Long Island, New York. It was one of those defining moments for a TV news organization: trying to make sense of a big breaking story from the first sketchy information without making a fool of yourself. MSNBC won the initial bragging rights: it aired the first bulletin on the crash a full eight minutes before CNN did. After that, however, 16-year-old CNN proved more resourceful...
...conference at 11:30 p.m. EST; MSNBC didn't get to it until an hour later. Anchor Williams, meanwhile, was forced to pause at regular intervals, compose himself for the camera and start all over again--to provide updates for NBC affiliates picking up MSNBC's feed. The new channel's one coup: stunning live pictures of the burning wreckage, supplied by a WNBC-TV helicopter...
...downside was a pointless parade of contributing pundits, who appeared in mix-and-match threesomes and contributed little but air-filling babble, and the channel's nonstop, near evangelical promotion of the Internet, where it has a Website. The partnership of NBC and Microsoft holds the promise of creating a hybrid form of news delivery on both TV and the Internet, but this Website has so far been disappointing...
...News president Andrew Lack blamed some of MSNBC's difficulties after the crash on the fact that so much of NBC's production resources are in Atlanta for the Olympics. Still, he praised the channel's performance. "We were working in an emergency situation with a group of people who have known each other for barely 90 days," he said, "and I thought we did a remarkable job. Frankly, I can't conceive being tested under more adverse conditions. And the system held...