Brian Williams - why lie?

You take hostility towards the elite to the insane, and look foolish doing it.

Speaking an outrageous lie about someone does not equal mocking.

Do onto others as you would have them do onto you.

hawkeye10 wrote:

Speaking an outrageous lie about someone does not equal mocking.

Do onto others as you would have them do onto you.

again, see your comments re Andy

From 2006 to 2011, he appeared at least 146 times on programs such as “Late Show With David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show,” “Ellen” and “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” according to a Washington Post analysis.

At 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, NBC executives cheered the appearances.

In the newsroom, reporters and producers grew increasingly concerned.

“Brian was a hell of a journalist,” said a longtime NBC producer, who no longer works for the network. “But Brian was always pressured by management to be more approachable, show that raconteur side of himself. And when you go on Letterman or Stewart, there are different rules.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Williams cannot say he did not write it, because that calls into question the credibility of the whole operation that is the NBC Nightly News. That would be pulling an Arnett. The only thing worse for NBC's public relations than the head honcho's failure is the admission of an institutional failure. Williams has no choice. He is the face of the franchise. He has to take the bullet. Let's not get so crazy as to call it a heroic act, but there is a poetry to it consistent with his reputation (until last week).

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If I was missing the truth through unfounded arrogance I would want someone to attempt to wake me up.

American news corporations, with the sole exception of PBS, lost all credibility in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.

EDIT: About a year ago there was another study that followed the people who graduated with a BS in 08/09, when a lot of people decided to immediately go to grad school since the job market sucked. The study said that on average those who went into the crappy job market with a BS made the more economically sound choice, that those who went to grad school still entered a crappy market, one that was flooded with master degree holders who had never worked, and now they had grad school loans to carry.

IDK. I read a lot of things but dont always remember where.

If I was missing the truth through unfounded arrogance I would want someone to attempt to wake me up.

Long before “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams conceded last week that he had exaggerated a harrowing tale of coiming under fire while aboard an Army helicopter during the 2003 Iraq invasion, his predecessor Tom Brokaw was warning colleagues that Williams’ version of events didn’t dovetail with the facts, NPR’s David Folkenflikn reports.

For “at least a year,” Folkenfilk says, Brokaw has been intimating that Williams’ gripping account — one that has repeatedly evolved over the years — raises significant red flags. Brokaw reportedly looked into the incident himself and concluded that “the facts simply didn’t match.” In the final analysis, Brokaw, who anchored the broadcast from 1982 to 2004, sees Williams as “more of a performer than an anchor,” Folkenfilk reports

But my phone was ringing off the hook with agents, newsroom executives and staffers wanting to tell me, off the record and on background, what hardworking, nonshow-biz journalists both ABC's David Muir and CBS' Scott Pelley are as anchors and managing editors.

The theme: Muir and Pelley are the anti-Brian Williams, the anchorman known the last couple of years more for "slow-jamming the news" with Jimmy Fallon than covering it responsibly for his viewers during the dinner hour. But even if it is pure spin, I am delighted to be hearing it, because it shows that one lesson the networks appear to be taking from the fall of Williams and NBC News is that good journalism is good business.
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Now comes the reckoning, because Brian Williams lost his journalistic way and Comcast, which took control of NBC in 2011, never seemed to understand the responsibilities that came with owning a national news operation.

NBC made more than $200 million in 2013 with the "Nightly News" — $30 million more than ABC and $50 million more than CBS.

That's the kind of money that's now up for grabs in the nightly news race. Look for slick network promotions in coming weeks showcasing the journalistic bona fides of Muir and Pelley. These are not blue smoke and mirrors. Both have paid some dues as reporters.

I know Pelley better than Muir. I've been writing and talking to him since the mid-1980s when I was a TV and media columnist at the late Dallas Times Herald and he was a reporter at an affiliate there. I know he takes the journalistic component of his job and the tradition of the chair in which he sits seriously — far more seriously than Williams did.


Lester Holt, who is replacing Williams, also has solid journalistic credentials. But he's in a tough spot, having the job on what's being presented as a temporary basis — while at the helm of a rudderless news operation.