October 08, 2008
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NBC has taken the unusual step of editing the online version of a “Saturday Night Live” skit. In a sketch about the government’s financial bailout package that was broadcast Saturday night, two characters identified as Herbert and Marion Sandler were labeled with on-screen words that read, “People who should be shot.” Those two characters represented real-life business managers who had sold their savings-and-loan company (and its mortgage-backed securities) to Wachovia.
via http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10...(more)

