Betsy Fischer, executive producer of Meet The Press and NBC News said in a tweet that the “NBC Legal Dept has written a letter to (Romney) camp asking for the removal of all NBC News material from their campaign ads.”
The ad, which is running in Florida, uses a news report by Tom Brokaw reporting on Newt Gingrich’s ethics violations back when he was House Speaker. “I am extremely uncomfortable with the extended use of my personal image in this political ad,” Brokaw said in a statement Saturday. “I do not want my role as a journalist compromised for political gain by any campaign.”
Jon Ward from Huffington Post reports in a tweet: “Romney campaign official tells me: ‘We haven’t heard anything from NBC, nothing to comment on until then.’”
