Broadcasting & Cable: NBC was extricating itself from the rough Monday after conceding that some of its staffers' aim was off in a produced piece for its golf coverage. In a letter it is sending to viewers who complained, NBC says the decision to edit the Pledge of Allegiance in a piece teeing off its U.S. Open Golf coverage was a "bad decision" made by a "small group of people," and that the controversy it created was justifiable.