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#Post#: 18987--------------------------------------------------
You wanna hear a good war story?
By: trollslayer Date: February 5, 2015, 6:53 pm
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NBC's Brian Williams has a doozy for you. The only problem is
there isn't a grain of truth it. His subsequent apology and
story he tell's has even more lies to it. More journalistic
integrity from the news channel that lacks any at all. Can we
say time to resign?
[quote]The NBC Nightly News anchor publicly apologized three
times Wednesday—during his regular broadcast, in a Facebook
post, and in Stars and Stripes—after the military-focused
newspaper published a damning story that Williams and NBC have
been claiming falsely “for years” that, during the 2003 Iraq
invasion, he was aboard a U.S. Army helicopter that was hit and
forced down by rocket-propelled grenades.
“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years
back during the invasion of Iraq,” Williams told viewers during
last Friday’s broadcast of the top-rated NBC Nightly News, “when
the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being
hit by an RPG.” Video accompanying the story showed a severely
damaged helicopter, its skin pierced by an RPG, and strongly
suggested that Williams had been a passenger on the
combat-hobbled aircraft.
Williams has told the story of being hit by enemy fire at least
twice on national television, most recently during Friday’s
Nightly News segment about a retired Army sergeant who protected
him and his NBC colleagues in the war zone. But Stars and
Stripes reported that contrary to Williams’ tall tale, his
Chinook helicopter was miles away when an entirely different
chopper took enemy fire.
The Nightly News story focused on honoring retired Sgt. Tim
Terpak, who, as Williams’ guest at a New York Rangers hockey
game last Thursday, was introduced by the Madison Square Garden
announcer with the erroneous anecdote and received a standing
ovation from the crowd as the two men hugged.
Williams quickly retracted the story after Stars and Stripes
confronted him with testimony from the crew of the 159th
Aviation Regiment’s Chinook that actually was downed by rockets
and small-arms fire; service members who were on the scene at
the time also took to Facebook after Friday’s broadcast to
contradict the Williams account.
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told
the newspaper, adding that he was sorry. “I don’t know what
screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft
with another.... No, we never came under direct enemy fire to
the aircraft.”
In a remorseful Facebook post, Williams wrote: “I spent much of
the weekend thinking I’d gone crazy. I feel terrible about
making this mistake....”[/quote]
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Re: You wanna hear a good war story?
By: Snickers Date: February 5, 2015, 8:06 pm
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[quote author=trollslayer link=topic=1377.msg18987#msg18987
date=1423183998]
NBC's Brian Williams has a doozy for you. The only problem is
there isn't a grain of truth it. His subsequent apology and
story he tell's has even more lies to it. More journalistic
integrity from the news channel that lacks any at all. Can we
say time to resign?
HTML http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/04/brian-williams-taints-his-brand.html
[/quote]
"journalistic integrity" and NBC in the same sentence? :o
Really??
#Post#: 18992--------------------------------------------------
Re: You wanna hear a good war story?
By: rapids_60 Date: February 5, 2015, 9:25 pm
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Maybe he was with Hillary and they were make-believe shooting
at her? :D
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Re: You wanna hear a good war story?
By: trollslayer Date: February 6, 2015, 8:08 pm
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Now there are reports that shed doubt of Williams award winning
coverage of hurricane Katrina.
[quote]
In addition to Iraq, questions have also surfaced about claims
that NBC News anchor Brian Williams has made about his reporting
in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. (Andrew Toth/AP)
By Paul Farhi and Ann Gerhart February 6 at 8:46 PM
NBC News launched an internal investigation Friday into
statements made by its lead anchor, Brian Williams, about his
reporting from Iraq in 2003, as well as stories he told about
his award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The investigation, confirmed by NBC officials, represents a
change in the network’s attitude toward its popular anchor only
a day after senior managers appeared to have accepted his
apology for misstating the facts surrounding his excursion on a
military helicopter while reporting on the start of the Iraq war
nearly 12 years ago.
The network’s investigative editor, Richard Esposito, will look
into Williams, whose top-ranked nightly newscast is viewed by 9
million daily. The announcement suggests that NBC considers the
storm around Williams to be a serious threat to his credibility
and integrity, perhaps the most-important qualities for a person
charged with delivering the evening news. At the least, the
investigation is a personal setback for Williams, a polished TV
presence who has displayed his wit and charm on entertainment
shows as well as newscasts.
Since the Iraq story came to light Wednesday, questions have
been raised about discrepancies in stories Williams told about
what he witnessed while reporting during Katrina and its
aftermath.
NBC’s new scrutiny of Williams suggests that he could face
disciplinary action — something that network managers were
saying Thursday was a remote possibility.
Brian Williams: What he got wrong(2:52)
Brian Williams, the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly
News, has apologized for telling a story about coming under fire
during a reporting assignment in Iraq in 2003. The Post’s Erik
Wemple describes what Williams got wrong and the potential
impact on his reputation and career.
NBC said Friday it would not comment on its investigation or on
Williams, who anchored “NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams” on
Friday evening as scheduled and did not address the mounting
questions.
NBC News President Deborah Turness announced the probe in an
internal memo Friday. Williams has apologized for falsely saying
on the air that he was in a helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled
grenade in Iraq in 2003, and he apologized Thursday and again
Friday to his colleagues, Turness wrote.
“We have a team dedicated to gathering the facts to help us make
sense of all that has transpired,” she added. “We’re working on
what the best next steps are.”
Williams and NBC won a Peabody Award for reporting on Katrina’s
impact on New Orleans and its surroundings. Williams had
recently ascended to anchor, and he flew to report live on the
Category 5 storm a few days before it struck Louisiana on Aug.
29, 2005. Williams reported daily from the city’s French Quarter
and its convention center and Superdome, where residents sought
shelter.
But the anchor has made several inconsistent statements since
then about what he saw and reported from the city.
In a documentary aired in October 2005 on the Sundance Channel,
“In His Own Words: Brian Williams on Hurricane Katrina,”
Williams said, “We’d heard the story of a man killing himself,
falling from the upper deck” of the Superdome, which sheltered
thousands in chaotic circumstances.
But in a subsequent video chat with former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw
after he accepted the Peabody Award, Williams’s story changed
from hearing about the suicide to witnessing it. “We watched
. . . all of us watched as one man committed
suicide” inside the Superdome, he said.
A suicide did occur inside the Superdome, The Washington Post
reported at the time, though the National Guard official who
confirmed the death said the man did not jump from the fourth
level.
Furthermore, if Williams had witnessed the episode, he did not
report it to his viewers. On Sept. 1, 2005, he left New Orleans
because the situation in the city “had become too dicey,” he
said in the documentary, and he anchored his newscasts in nearby
Metairie, La., then Baton Rouge.
Another claim by Williams — that he watched as a body floated
past his Ritz-Carlton hotel window — is difficult to
substantiate. The hotel is located at the edge of the French
Quarter, most of which remained dry.
In an interview Friday, Gregory Henderson, a pathologist and New
Orleans native who had checked in at the Ritz to ride out the
storm, said the water “was definitely waist-high and I watched
people wading through it, carrying their belongings over their
heads. I didn’t see any bodies floating in it.” The Sheraton
hotel, a few blocks away and closer to the Mississippi River,
remained dry, he said.[/quote]
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I think it's time NBC promote Rev Al to the position of anchor
of the evening news. He appears to have more credibility than
Williams! ;D
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Re: You wanna hear a good war story?
By: rapids_60 Date: February 6, 2015, 11:39 pm
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Who could forget that time Brian Williams led police on that
slow motion chase?
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#Post#: 19016--------------------------------------------------
Re: You wanna hear a good war story?
By: trollslayer Date: February 7, 2015, 7:01 am
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Nice!! :)
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Re: You wanna hear a good war story?
By: Linda Lou Date: February 7, 2015, 8:43 am
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This is a shame. I always thought Brian Williams was a reputable
reporter. I can't imagine why he would embellish something like
this.
I'm curious, though...why hasn't this been brought up before
now?
#Post#: 19018--------------------------------------------------
Re: You wanna hear a good war story?
By: 2fat Date: February 7, 2015, 9:59 am
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Dan Rather was a trusted news reporter once upon a time too
#Post#: 19019--------------------------------------------------
Re: You wanna hear a good war story?
By: Linda Lou Date: February 7, 2015, 10:26 am
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Yeah...I was just thinking that, 2Fat. Dan Rather's long career
was tarnished by one story that was a bit foggy....
#Post#: 19020--------------------------------------------------
Re: You wanna hear a good war story?
By: trollslayer Date: February 7, 2015, 2:30 pm
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Rather is still doing news stories and documentaries for little
known HDNET. I think it's now called Audience and I don't
believe you can find it anywhere except Directv. Talk about
taking a tumble.
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