From: Gawker
NBC has drawn the long knives and dispatched NBC Sports titan and
former late-night guru Dick Ebersol—who produced Saturday
Night Live during the Joe Piscipo years—to strike back at
Conan O'Brien in a New York Times interview.Angry that O'Brien has
been making fun of his pals Jay Leno and Jeff Zucker,
Ebersol—in a clearly strategic move on the part of NBC—
told the dean of the late-night TV reporters Bill Carter that he
thought O'Brien's Leno jokes were "chicken-hearted and gutless to
blame a guy you couldn't beat in the ratings" and that NBC "bet on
the wrong guy." Class acts, these NBC executives. In a historical
footnote, back when it was Dave Lett...
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