NBC News staffers who provided graphics support to both sister network MSNBC and the mothership division have been laid off from their jobs ahead of corporate parent Comcast’s spin-off of its cable division into a new company, according to a report.Fewer than a dozen staffers were shown the door at 30 Rock recently as preparations are being made for a new company called Versant to absorb MSNBC, according to the Status newsletter.The first casualties of the imminent divorce landed in NBC’s graphics unit, whi ...