This is amusing, and not particularly something of the big-deal variety, but worth noting if you (like me) are just catching up to it: John McCain appeared live at the top of "Nightly" on Friday for a Brian Williams interview at the Lorraine Motel, but as the candidate and anchorman found out, no sense in holding a live interview on the 40th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination at the scene of the crime. Here's what happened:
Williams later apologized on his blog, and they got to a quieter place for the 7 p.m. feed (and thanks to TVnewers for gathering the string on all of this):
"On the first feed of the broadcast tonight, a promised candlelight vigil became a series of hyper-amplified speeches, 50 yards behind us while we were on live television...Because I was at the center of it, and I could not know how bad a viewing experience it was, I did not know to apologize while it was happening — The McCain folks are angry, justifiably so. So are we."