Two paths seems to be emerging. 1. Some great mocking at Williams: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/02/04/brian-williams-faces-fierce-mockery-after-recanting-iraq-war-story/ and http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-brian-williams-social-media-20150204-htmlstory.html
2. A sense that Williams should be disciplined, if not outright fired, for this (primarily from the journalism watchers): http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2015/02/05/brian-williams-unmitigated-disaster/22915325/ and http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/04/brian-williams-taints-his-brand.html I know I raised in this forum a question about Williams and how he sometimes seems to skate the line between a member of a news organization and an entertainer, only to be convinced by the panel I was being oversensitive about it. Fundamentally, this isn't a huge deal. But that voice that was silenced way back when is kinda screaming back at me that this is the kind of crap it was talking about. On Thu Feb 05 2015 at 9:00:18 AM Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > He apologized Wednesday (4) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33RSg9CBtUY> > ('toob) for having said on NBC's telecast of an NHL game as part of a > ceremony honouring a servicemember* -* and in 2013 to Dave - that a > chopper he was in while covering Iraq fighting in 2003 got hit by enemy > fire... the US military-newser Stars and Stripes busted him > <http://www.stripes.com/news/us/nbc-s-brian-williams-recants-iraq-story-after-soldiers-protest-1.327792> > (link) after gripes from three actual occupants of the attacked craft that > he was in a different chopper... > > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
