Nbc News Goes Docu-Shopping

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By Ned Zeman

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For months, NBC News has been blasted within the industry for compromising its role as a serious news organization. The critics' latest evidence: the failure of NBC News to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor with a prime-time documentary. (ABC, CBS and CNN are all doing so.) After the airing of a highly rated Pearl Harbor documentary on PBS's "The American Experience," NBC offered to buy the program from PBS and repackage it, But for contractual reasons, PBS couldn't sell. That left the network covering the anniversary only on "Today" and "Nightly News." "We all make different choices," said NBC spokesperson Peggy Hubble.

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