NBC's coverage of the US Open outraged some people for something that was left out of the opening to Sunday's event.
Ken Ramsey wrote us to say, “It is deplorable that NBC would intentionally omit "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. Then apologize, omitting "Under God" in their apology. I don't know if you or your other local colleagues are as leftist as your National Broadcasting Company but you are the ones who will suffer from their anti-God bias. Many of the viewing audience will choose to watch programs on the other networks. I will avoid (intentionally) watching NBC programming, including local broadcasting for the foreseeable future."
And Bill Lawson added, “I will no longer watch Channel 10 except to catch your news for the sole purpose of informing your sponsors that NBC left the term "under God" out during the pledge at the US Open, and to convince them not to deal with WSLS, shame on you and NBC.”
WSLS responds: Let me say upfront that I understand why you are upset. NBC made a mistake and they apologized, as they should have, for that mistake several hours later during their coverage of the US Open. They should not have eliminated any part of the Pledge of Allegiance. I also want to make sure that you know that WSLS had no part in the US Open coverage. We are not owned by NBC. We are an affiliate of NBC and as such air its programming. But, we are owned by Media General, a Virginia-based company.
Our coverage of Boys State in Lynchburg left one viewer feeling we were sexiest.
Tawanna wrote, “You mentioned that Bob McDonnell & Ken Cuccinelli were at LIBERTY for Boys State, however they also made an appearance at Girls State at Longwood. I understand Longwood may be out of your coverage area, but I believe it was worth mentioning that these two state officials were also supporting Girls State. You not mentioning that the state officials were at one (boys) event and not the other (girls) showed very one sided sexist and biased reporting."
WSLS responds: Thanks for the email. We did several long and short stories on Boys State and the speeches giving by the governor and attorney general. In the longer version at 5:30, we mentioned that the governor, lt. governor and attorney general were all also at Girls State. But, we didn't cover the actual Girls State event, because it is much further away.
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