Methinks that a poster using the euphonious--but obviously anonymous--name of Aelora doth protest too much. Aelora added this comment to my Dan Abrams post from yesterday:
I was going to point out that Dan no longer works for NBC/MSNBC except as a consultant (and for this, his fans are very sad!), but apparently Mr. Abrams took care of that. :)
I will say, you should probably do your research before making accusations. It wasn't a terribly difficult fact to discover. I wouldn't base my conclusions on a link to MSNBC that hasn't been updated since early 2007, and you probably shouldn't, either.
Well excu-u-u-u-se me! And thanks Aelora, for reminding me of the fact that I really had done my homework yesterday when I first posted on Abrams. I mean, what a silly girl I am: I thought that if I went to the official website of NBC/MSNBC, I would be getting the straight story about Abrams and his status with NBC/MSNBC.
Specifically, if Abrams is no longer the "Chief Legal Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC," then why does it still say that he is on the NBC/MSNBC website? (Which I linked to on Thursday, see screen grab above, from yet another visit to the site, taken about five minutes ago this Friday night.)
I mean, isn't MSNBC supposed to the most computer savvy of the cablers? After all, the "MS" in the name stands for Microsoft, which was a co-corporate parent for MSNBC back in 1996.
Why wouldn't the casual observer think that Abrams is still "Chief Legal Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC"?
And maybe Abrams hasn't really minded the confusion. Which might explain why his billing as "Chief Legal Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC" is up there, even now, as I write these words. D'ya think that I am the only one out there who might be confused by such a site? Could it be possible that fatcat corporate clients might get the idea that they could hire an active bigfoot TV reporter to also be their for-hire p.r. consigliere at the same time? And that said reporter/p.r. adviser was connected to lots of other reporters and opinion leaders?
Come on Dan--come clean. If you really have broken your employee connection to NBC/MSNBC, to pursue your own private interests, you should at least let the news nets know.
