IF that producer was working at NBC studios in NYC, NY, It’s impractical for NBC to release the employee’s name to the public. Opens up NBC and whoever actually releases it to a lawsuit.
A lawyer on the NY State bar can better explain the labor law involved.
NBC has to stay silent and suck up the bad publicity here. They do not want to get sued and have to go through depositions in discovery for a wrongful termination/defamation of character lawsuit in NYC.
PLaintiff will claim BRian Williams directed him to do the edit, NBC would have to put Williams under oath to refute, he said/he said, public records, etc.
They guy was in Miami (NBC studio) according to an early report.
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Discovery would produce the guy/gal's name in about 3 minutes.
And if they had actually fired someone we would have learned the name in about 6 hours. Nothing like that could be kept secret.
"IF that producer was working at NBC studios in NYC, NY, It’s impractical for NBC to release the employee’s name to the public. Opens up NBC and whoever actually releases it to a lawsuit."
First, NBC has claimed (consider the source, of course) that the producer was based out of Miami. Second, when Zimmerman inevitably sues NBC, the names of these people are going to come out in discovery, anyways. It's going to look really bad if NBC really didn't take any action here.
IF that producer was working at NBC studios in NYC, NY, It’s impractical for NBC to release the employee’s name to the public. Opens up NBC and whoever actually releases it to a lawsuit.
A lawyer on the NY State bar can better explain the labor law involved.
NBC has to stay silent and suck up the bad publicity here. They do not want to get sued and have to go through depositions in discovery for a wrongful termination/defamation of character lawsuit in NYC.
PLaintiff will claim BRian Williams directed him to do the edit, NBC would have to put Williams under oath to refute, he said/he said, public records, etc.
Does not seem to have affected CBS when they fired Mapes.
NBC refuses to release the name because they have not fired anyone.
The only thing NBC is accomplishing here is to dig themselves a deeper hole.
Dig Baby Dig is all I have to say.
Impractical? How about illegal? This news story libels George Zimmerman, not to mention potentially contributes to his bodily harm. If NBC doesn't release the name, are they not guilty of obstructing justice, or contributing to a crime?