This is an NBC affiliate. There is no reason that footage shouldn't end up on Brokaw's newscast as well.
Sure there is. It doesn't comport with Tommy's worldview to show Ritter for the pervert he is.
Ask yourself this: why didn't it end up on Brokaw's newscast a year-and-a-half ago? Or on WNYT, at least?
We have an arrest of a "William Ritter". We have his mug shot. We have video of his arrest at a Burger King. Are you telling me that nobody at the station, or at the newspaper, figured out that "William Ritter" was the media celebrity, Scott Ritter, who lived in Delmar?
Are the journalists in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy market such dumb bunnies that they can't put two and two together -- and realize they're sitting on a major story involving a media and political celebrity?
And what's with the sealed records? How does Scott Ritter get a pass from the local authorities, as well as the local media? Who was in the pay of who? Who got the word? And who passed it?
Was Iraq involved? Directly or thru local politicos?
For security purposes (as well as political reasons), all these questions need answers. And I don't believe the media or the NY state Democrats want to give any...