NBC Fires Employee for Posting 'What Is the Internet' Clip

aolnews.com ^ | 2-6-11

[Da Coyote]

Wouldn’t that be “....distributing material that shows liberals in a bad light without permission....”?

[Track9]

I wonder how these idiots would feel if they had a PC Manning on board.. and yet they’re the first ones to think hes great.

[jessduntno]

Filmed in 1994, the clip features Gumbel demanding, with a befuddled expression: "What is the Internet anyway?" and Couric stumbling to define it as: "that massive computer network, the one that's becoming really big now."

[Christian Engineer Mass]

It just reminds us how pathetic and out of date their talking heads are now.

Couric :
The standard unit measurement for mass weight of feces. The European Fecal Standards & Measurements Board in Zürich keeps track of the authenticity of its records. “one Katie Couric is about two and a half pounds of human excrement”

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=couric

[unixfox]

"What is the Internet anyway?"

It's the liberal/marxist/RAT media's worst nightmare.

[pnh102]

Heh... the person in question should have distributed this clip instead. For those of you not familiar with the Jay and Silent Bob movies, this contains profanity.

[speciallybland]

“Filmed in 1994...”

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Gumbel said, “What is internet?” and then went on to draw the @ sign with his finger several times while wondering out loud what it was. He looked like an idiot but he has always appeared pompous and arrogant to me anyway. What a tool. Glad his ugly mug isn’t on a tv station we watch.

[surfer]

Just proves they were clueless and stupid back then and they still haven’t learned anything.

[Erik Latranyi]

Releasing this clip did more to promote the TODAY show than anything NBC has done in decades and they fire the poor guy over it.

It was a master-stroke of genius to release this!

[politicianslie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUs7iG1mNjI

[philman_36]

"What is the Internet anyway?"
The Internet is ABC/NBC/CBS's worst nightmare.

"The individual in question violated the company's standards of conduct (guffaw) by repeatedly copying and distributing a variety of materials without permission," the statement said.
Now, now...this is just the gatekeepers guarding the gates.
The "free press" isn't so free after all.

[seowulf]

"What is the Internet anyway?"

They would have known if they'd watched Rush Limbaugh's TV show and signed up for Compuserve.

[Squawk 8888]

NBC should’ve posted the clip now and had fun with it. Back in ‘94 nobody knew how the Internet would affect our lives. The clip belongs right up there with “a world market for 3 computers” by the CEO of IBM and “who could possibly need more than 640k” by Bill Gates.

[martin_fierro]

“who could possibly need more than 640k” by Bill Gates.

There's still a lot of debate about whether Gates actually said that, but this definitely happened.

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[jessduntno]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUs7iG1mNjI

Hilarious ... if it was 1984, it would still be weird for a professional information company (supposedly) to be so hopelessly stupid.

[jessduntno]

In the clip, Gumbel also complains about e-mail addresses, particularly “that little mark with the ‘a’ and the ring around it.”

On keyboards since 1910 ... these morons ever write anything in their lives? Is it because it is more likely to be used in business?

http://www.typewritermuseum.org/collection/indexk.html

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Everything is still a mystery to them!

[ApplegateRanch]

As funny as it is; and profitable or not, theft is still theft...or at least misappropriation...of company property.