Krishna Guru-Murthy also
interviewed musician Jazzie B about Scott-Heron after presenting this report. It includes excerpts from Scott-Heron's older pieces "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", "The Bottle", "B Movie" (noted as critical of Ronald Reagan), and his more recent "I'm New Here" (2009) and summarized his early life and family.
Although Scott-Heron was American, a British newscast covered his death more than the American network news shows; the American newscasts devoted much time to the Missouri tornado, the 2012 election, the president's state visit to Europe, and Memorial Day. On Saturday's
CBS Evening News, Russ Mitchell (
16:25 mark of this video) read a 20-second summary with excerpt from "Revolution". However, Mitchell ended the Evening News with a profile of the 100th annual Indy 500 race.
NBC Nightly News spent only 32 seconds (
18:55 mark of this video) on Scott-Heron; Lester Holt read a brief summary with photos and this particular line from "Revolution": "NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 or report from 29 districts." and squeezed in that GSH disliked his media alias "Godfather of Rap" and released 12 albums after "Revolution". NBC positioned this summary right after a full story previewing summer movies, and earlier NBC had a full story about the Casey Anthony trial...why is that trial of a mother accused of killing her daughter and covering it up so newsworthy, again? ABC I assume did the same although I can't find video of that, but David Muir found time to spend one full minute
gushing over vintage photos of Hollywood stars enjoying their summertime.