Brian Williams suspended 6 months without pay
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RT @brianstelter: Breaking: Brian Williams suspended for six months without pay, according to an NBC source.
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/565311581438111744
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/565311581438111744
By MorisLying about something military related? America don't play that.
Except for the rest of the Iraq War tho.
By MorisLying about something military related? America don't play that.If he had said the N word he'd be back in 2 weeks.
Still surprised at the length though. I figured it'd be around a month. People are already beginning to forget.
what a dumbass,
you can't cover a lie this broad.
i mean if you and a couple of others were present at the time of even, fine whatever,
but there were other helos in the air.
did he not think those soldiers would not talk about it?
you can't cover a lie this broad.
i mean if you and a couple of others were present at the time of even, fine whatever,
but there were other helos in the air.
did he not think those soldiers would not talk about it?
Brain Williams needs to sharpen up his skills, mane. Fox News cats make up shit every day and keep eating.
By jWILL253Brain Williams needs to sharpen up his skills, mane. Fox News cats make up shit every day and keep eating.Came in here to post something like that...
But really the media has been lying to the people everyday, it's just that this guy took it to a me me me level of lying..
While the speed of Williams's crash has stunned NBC staffers — “the cannibalism that’s going on here is so ferocious,” one told me — many people inside NBC News knew about Williams’s tendency to exaggerate the now-infamous helicopter ride in Iraq. “He was never a field reporter. He was incredibly insecure about it,” one former NBC News staffer said, speculating about why the anchor felt the need to exaggerate.
As word of Williams’s habit of embellishing spread through the network over the last decade, powerful voices tried to stop him. According to sources, former NBC News president Steve Capus and Tom Brokaw implored Williams to stick to the facts. “A lot of people, including Tom Brokaw, all said, ‘Let’s be careful here,’” one person with knowledge of the conversations told me. Capus left NBC in February 2013. One month later, Williams made his pivotal appearance on David Letterman's show, where he revived the now-discredited Iraq story. “This is similar to Dan Rather in the ’80s,” one former NBC executive told me. “There’s no checks and balances. Brian has so much power.” Williams's embattled boss, Deborah Turness, has struggled to gain control of the news division.
This likely won’t be the end of Williams’s troubles. The network announced today that Richard Esposito, the senior producer conducting the fact-checking investigation of Williams's statements, will continue his inquiry. The fact that NBC lawyers are said to be reviewing the list of Williams’s fictions is an ominous sign. Another source told me today that NBC has widened their probe to include Williams’s expense accounts. In the meantime, NBC executives will be poring over Lester Holt’s ratings data to gauge his strength as a possible full-time replacement.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/williams-wishes-he-were-tonight-show-host.html
