Whoops!
During a promo for the US Open, NBC aired footage of a classroom of kids reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and omitted the part where they were supposed to say, “Under God.”’
After receiving some angry letters, NBC issued the following apology:
“We began our coverage of this final round just about three hours ago and when we did it was our intent to begin the coverage of this U.S. Open Championship with a feature that captured the patriotism of our national championship being held in our nation’s capital for the third time. Regrettably, a portion of the Pledge of Allegiance that was in that feature was edited out. It was not done to upset anyone and we’d like to apologize to those of you who were offended by it.”
Better not mess up again, NBC!