Brian Williams - why lie?

With more and more exaggerated stories coming out with each passing day, I am beginning to wonder if these are an early sign of dementia with Brian.

Do you think NBC's handling of it has been appropriate?
A better question might be: Could NBC’s behavior possibly have been more disastrous? Certainly Williams has few friends at the network. If he had, someone would have told him not to deliver that correction, and someone might also have said that it was a bad idea for him to then be photographed at a Rangers game with Tom Hanks, whose signature screen performances include playing a war hero in Saving Private Ryan and a fictional witness to historical events in Forrest Gump. It was almost a subliminal invitation for social media to go berserk with comic images placing Williams as a vainglorious interloper at key moments of history. The loosey-goosey wording of Williams’s self-proclaimed hiatus from the anchor chair was another public-relations fiasco.

Since then, the network’s executives have entered the witness protection program, as has Williams — the very opposite of the out-front response required. The vacuum they’ve created has been filled by everyone else. As a result their internal fact-finding effort — or investigation, or whatever they are calling it — will be suspect upon arrival.

My God, what’s happening to Brian is in the Zeitgeist,” marveled an NBC News wag on Monday. “He’s trumping Bruce Jenner on social media. I mean, cross-dressing Bruce Jenner killed somebody, but Brian Williams is still trending

CNN just reported that Brian Williams has been suspended from NBC for 6 months without pay.

Lester Holt will continue to fill in as the anchor of Nightly News.

oralloy wrote:

Frank Apisa wrote:

Is there anyone here saying he/she has never done it?

I've never done it.

You've never embellished the truth, Oralloy???
Not even in that sentence?

It should be noted that a lot of people said that Laura Logan was on track for an anchor spot before she got in trouble, but over a year later she is still going to work and collecting a paycheck but so far as the business goes she might as well be gone...she is hardly working and no one wants to work with her.
So 6 months was good enough for her so it is good enough for him? No. She should have been fired.

3. Logan’s Colleagues Viewed Her as a Loose Cannon

Hagan’s piece is chock-full of quotes from Logan’s colleagues throughout her career calling her reckless, sometimes to the point of potentially endangering her crew. “It’s not an accident that Lara Logan fucked up,” one, albeit anonymous, colleague told Hagan. “It was inevitable. Everybody saw this coming.”

Hagan paints her as almost addicted to risk, which he intimates may have in part led to the Benghazi debacle. After she was sexually assaulted by a mob in Tahrir Square, CBS was reluctant to send her back out into the field, instead assigning her pieces on Aerosmith and the like. The Benghazi story, involving both a part of the world and the types of people (military contractors and employees of private security firms) with which Logan was familiar, seemed perfect for her, but it also allowed a shot of risk by proxy. In short, affinity bias may have made this story more attractive to Logan than its merits permitted.

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3. Logan’s Colleagues Viewed Her as a Loose Cannon

Hagan’s piece is chock-full of quotes from Logan’s colleagues throughout her career calling her reckless, sometimes to the point of potentially endangering her crew. “It’s not an accident that Lara Logan fucked up,” one, albeit anonymous, colleague told Hagan. “It was inevitable. Everybody saw this coming.”

Hagan paints her as almost addicted to risk, which he intimates may have in part led to the Benghazi debacle. After she was sexually assaulted by a mob in Tahrir Square, CBS was reluctant to send her back out into the field, instead assigning her pieces on Aerosmith and the like. The Benghazi story, involving both a part of the world and the types of people (military contractors and employees of private security firms) with which Logan was familiar, seemed perfect for her, but it also allowed a shot of risk by proxy. In short, affinity bias may have made this story more attractive to Logan than its merits permitted.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/5-big-takeaways-from-ny-mags-piece-on-lara-logans-benghazi-report/

She should have been fired. Brian Williams will be fired.

Her being gang raped in Egypt is solely the fault of the people who raped her.

and an outrage that CBS had no objection when no one pursued them.

THe people who were with her refuse to talk, but this is doubtful. She had been advised to not go out because it was known that sexual assaults were rampant Then she got separated from the group that could have protected her, mostly likely on purpose from her or because she did not care enough about safety to pay attention.