NBC's Brian Williams

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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,915
    edited February 2015
    Gotta love the NY Post...

  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,927
    http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fact-checked-adventures-brian-williams?intcid=mod-yml

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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    See, I don't get that. Dude goes out of his way not to flaunt his absurd amount of money.
  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    Hobbes wrote: »
    Walter Cronkite read the news and he was know as "the most trusted man in America".

    That was back when the news was a public service. News and their stations are privately owned, these owners have the right to tell the public whatever agenda they have. Brian Williams is merely a pawn and was likely told to lie for "ratings" because drama spikes ratings.
  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    backseatLover12 wrote: »
    Hobbes wrote: »
    Walter Cronkite read the news and he was know as "the most trusted man in America".

    That was back when the news was a public service. News and their stations are privately owned, these owners have the right to tell the public whatever agenda they have. Brian Williams is merely a pawn and was likely told to lie for "ratings" because drama spikes ratings.

    Exactly my point. No more credibility in the "news" anymore. No truth, just ratings. Might as well be on the E! Channel.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,766
    edited February 2015
    ^^^ I understand your frustration, but isn't saying that there are no truth presented in the news quite an extreme exaggeration? Unless you only watch Fox News, of course? ;)

    The news has to be watched with informed caution.... but what that has to do with an anchor twisting an old personal military story is beyond me.
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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Extreme exaggeration? Who am I, Brian Williams? :smiley:

    It's more of a commentary on where we are at. Cronkite read the news and was trusted. Williams or fill-in-the-blank anchor reads the news and there is doubt. So you throw in a completely fabricated story to boost ratings, the trust kind of goes out the window.

    I don't blame Williams, entirely. He's part of the machine. I've always liked him. His work on SNL or Fallon.
  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    edited February 2015
    Absolutely Hobbes. It's nice to have someone else here know about what the media pulls over on the public. I studied the media and marketing in college and still do, attempting to spread the word about the manipulative tactics at its very soul, but let's face it, people don't want their illusions destroyed. They want to believe that our govt tells us facts even though we will never see a casket of a dead serviceman in the news (thanks Bush), never see actual servicemen on the ground in war-torn areas, never see what our men and women are doing in the Middle East. It's all well protected, while we get to be distracted with a supposed "trustworthy" anchor being caught lying. Let's all get angry about the non-essentials. Because really, until people shut off the TV and other media and think critically about what we're being spoon fed by 6 corporations now owning the media in the U.S, we'll pretend that "they would never lie to us…"
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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    We are all so stupid.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,766
    edited February 2015
    I have a communications degree, so probably know better than most people how the media runs and to what extent news networks are full of shit and what tactics they use. My knowledge also dictates that a realistic perspective is the best thing to maintain.
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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    edited February 2015
    So were you in broadcasting? Or what?
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,766
    edited February 2015
    I am in publishing, but my degree covered broadcasting, media in society, advertising, etc etc.
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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    What was your concentration?
  • Amongst the Ani
    Amongst the Ani @Wobbie Posts: 7,790
    The 24 news networks destroyed news as a whole. Before there was time to fact check and to make sure it was done in the proper manner. Now its all about being the first to report something with the facts just getting in the way. More viewers = higher advertising rates = higher profit. I guess in the end society is at fault for the impatient creatures we have become in the information age.
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  • SP96445
    SP96445 Posts: 215
    I have worked in broadcast TV for 25 years (never in news though) and as cynical as I have become about the entertainment business, I am surprised by this reaction to a story that allegedly happened 12 years ago.
    First of all hardly anyone watches the network news anymore, unless some crisis is going and even then viewership is fleeting. I think the #'s are around 4-5 million viewers nightly each which is only 12-14 million viewers. About 4% of U.S. population.

    Second NBC is the top rated news so I think some "gotcha journalism" is going on.

    Third, other posters mention the Lara Logan and Dan Rather episodes. Both of those incidents truly reflected flawed decisions that besmirched their employers reputations. I usually watch NBC news and had never heard about Brian Williams "heroic story" before so I never thought his reputation relied on this helicopter shoot down.

    Lastly I believe the notion of "trusted newsman" is bullshit these days and from a by gone era that ended long ago.
    All the networks and cable news outlets are owned by 4 corporations Viacom, News Corp, Disney, and NBC/Comcast and all suck from the corporation teet. You want real news watch BBC or Al Jezeera America
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,766
    My concentration started out as advertising (just for lack of any better ideas at the time), but I shifted to publishing thank god.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    NBC has announced Brian William's replacement ....

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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    too bad---no need to make stories up like that. really like the guy. I doubt they'll fire him, though.
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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    Brian Williams embellishes one news story = firestorm. Fox News lies unapologetically for 20 straight years = #1 cable news network.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    mfc2006 wrote: »
    too bad---no need to make stories up like that. really like the guy. I doubt they'll fire him, though.

    I hope they don't. Thought this was good though

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-anchors-aweigh.html?ref=opinion

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