This has been flagged briefly on a few blogs. But we heard about it first from a slew of readers after 7 PM yesterday evening. In short, MSNBC preempted something called “Deadly Encounter” to run a “Headliners and Legends” mini-doc on Hillary Clinton hosted by Matt Lauer, scheduled to run just before their coverage of Saturday evening’s election results.
As far as we know there was no companion Obama doc running with the Hillary one. And given how fluffy these “Headliners and Legends” episodes are, it’s hard not to think that this wasn’t some effort on the NBC execs part to curry favor with the campaign. So we asked an NBC spokesperson how it was a Hillary documentary came to preempt a regularly scheduled program and run just before the evening’s election coverage, and we got back this reply …
Yes that program aired. We changed our program schedule earlier in the week when we decided to have 3 hours of election coverage on Saturday night.
This could bear some more digging.
