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NEWS Tom Brokaw Forced Against His Will To Stay On Air For 48 Straight Hours 
Lost within the euphoria of finding longtime Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein, Americans found themselves oblivious to the suffering that was going on right before their very The Larry Ellison 'Don't You Losers Wish You Could Have Your Own Game' Same Game
rokaw's ordeal began at 5am Sunday
morning when he was summoned to the NBC News studios as the first reports of Saddam's surrender began to filter in.
But what started out as an ordinary breaking news event soon took a sinister turn. Six hours into the broadcast Brokaw asked his producers if he could take a short break and was refused. And things would only get worse for the veteran anchor. On his second day of forced around-the-clock broadcasting Brokaw made an impassioned plea with his captors to be set free: âLook we've been showing the same damn tape over and over again ad nauseam. There's nothing new to report here. I'm tired and hungry. I haven't had a bath in two days. Please, I beg you, if you have any humanity at all, let me go home now!!!â It was only thanks Howard Dean's live press conference on Saddam's surrender that Brokaw would again become a free man. NBC News executives had decided that by that stage the story had indeed lost its steam and the public's interest would be better served watching reruns of âFriends.â âThanks Howard. You came through,â said a relieved Brokaw. |