Arts, Briefly: NBC News in Orbit
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Network newscasts have been known to go to great lengths to find new viewers, but the âNBC Nightly News With Brian Williamsâ has taken that search to outer space.
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Plus: Shuttle docks with space station. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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PLEASE CREDIT ANY QUOTES OR EXCERPTS FROM THIS NBC TELEVISION PROGRAM TO &quot;NBC NEWS&#39; MEET THE PRESS.&quot;. This is a rush transcript provided for the information and convenience of the press.
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This weekend&#39;s Live Earth  extravaganza aims to bring awareness of global warming as well  as music to the world, and NBC Universal wants to make sure its  wall-to-wall television coverage doesn&#39;t strike a sour note.
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See a roundup of the week's news and events, from a dictator's demise to a meteor's blaze of glory to a tiger "trapped" by a remote camera.
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An asteroid with a wild orbit is about to zoom by our planet. Plus: Solving the mystery of the Pioneer anomaly could take decades.... A biologist finds a chunk of space shuttle Columbia. By Amit Asaravala.
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A victor in Mexico, a shuttle launch in Florida, a subway crash in Spain and more memorable images from the week
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The pilot episode of "Medical Investigation," NBC's new medical science series, makes a hash of the National Institutes of Health and of a classic piece of journalism.
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NBC Universal and the News Corporation canât seem to catch a break when it comes to a name for their new video-sharing service.
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.
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NASA plans to launch a new space telescope later this month capable of spinning around at a moment&#39;s notice to catch sight of the elusive, brief and powerful explosions that send blasts of light and radiation screaming through our universe every day.
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Yesterday at 3 p.m., these were the top headlines running on Bloomberg's news service:
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NEW YORK  - NBC and its networks will   provide a full-court press of coverage on the fifth anniversary   of the September 11 attacks, calling on current NBC News   journalists as well as former anchor Tom Brokaw and former   "Today" co-host Jane Pauley.
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Jim Posner sent me a link yesterday to an MP3 of a conference call between the press and two members of the Clinton campaign. It's really illuminating.  There are controversies the press isn't reporting, esp betw the Clinton campaign and NBC. Will there be a debate on Feb 26 and will CNN host it or MSNBC? There's some doubt, but you can't see it when you watch the broadcasts.  I'd love to subscribe to a feed of these conference calls, but we only happened to stumble upon this one. This morning on MSNBC they were talking about a conference call with Hillary Clinton, they said she sounded tired. I'd like to hear that for myself.  There's a difference in 2008, the campaign is not just being covered by the professional media, the people are doing it too. Even if we don't have our people on the calls, I'd still like to hear them.  So, if you have an idea how we could catch a stream of these, please post a comment. Thanks. PS: I archived the MP3 in case the link above goes bad.
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NBC News said Tuesday it is creating its own in-house firm, Peacock Productions, to make nonfiction programming available to various cable networks.
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One week into its coverage of the  Athens Olympics, television network NBC has mounted a comeback  in viewership worthy of U.S. gold-medal gymnasts, reversing an  early slump to post ratings well ahead of four years ago.
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Hoping to avoid a repeat of 2000's election-night disaster, NBC News brass on Wednesday outlined the steps the news division has taken to ensure accuracy in its coverage of what is expected to be a close contest between President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry.