NBC Mislabels Dem Mayor as ‘R’ After Providence Fires All Its Scho

Brad Wilmouth
February 28th, 2011 7:29 AM
 On Sunday’s NBC Nightly News, a report filed by correspondent Kevin Tibbles mislabeled the Democratic Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, Angel Taveras, as a Republican during the piece which recounted that the city’s school board had fired all its teachers with the intent to hire back some of them to help solve the city’s budget problems. Anchor Lester Holt briefly referred to protesters in…