BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – NBC News has been accused of “deceitful” editing for reporting on a California restaurant owner who went viral after saying her restaurant was forced to close because of COVID-19 restrictions while a Peacock Network comedy was allowed to feed its crew steps away.
Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill owner Angela Marsden filmed herself complaining that a Hollywood crew had been allowed to set up an outdoor dining area a few yards from where her restaurant’s outdoor dining patio was forced to shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The New York Times reported that NBC comedy “Good Girls” was the production that required catering only feet away from the shuttered Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill, but NBC News apparently didn’t want its corporate sibling to be part of the story.
NBC’s “Sunday Today” aired a segment about businesses suffering from coronavirus lockdowns and used part of Marsden’s viral video but didn’t inform viewers why she was worked up, according to the Media Research Center.
NBC finally responded to the criticism in a written statement which read in part. “We at this network believe that catered food won’t spread Covid-19, whereas we believe that grilled food is a substantial risk,” the letter stated. “We admit that there is no scientific data that confirms our assessment, but this is America, and we can believe whatever we want. Secondly, the restaurant owner should be praising the cast and crew from “Good Girls”, for them putting their health at risk, just to entertain jobless employees like hers, that are sitting at home all day with nothing to do.”