The NY Post reports that at least one important person agrees with some here that Williams should be fired. Citing an unnamed source, they state "He [Tom Brokaw] is making a lot of noise at NBC that a lesser journalist or producer would have been immediately fired or suspended for a false report".
I keep seeing headlines on stories throughout the internet that include phrases like: "Williams admits to lying about Helicopter incident" - but then the body of the story includes no information indicating that Williams admitted to lying, but simply his statement that he acknowledges that his memory was incorrect and conflated. I was chalking this up to the usual sloppy standards that has infected most journalism these days, but this NYP story says that Brokaw and other Big Wigs at NBC News have known for years that Williams story was incorrect, and have told him to stop repeating it on the air, and Williams has refused. If this account is correct, it would be the real bombshell, and would begin to suggest that Williams has been lying (or at least that he has been reporting as true a story he should have known to be of questionable accuracy) - but it would also seem to be implicating both Brokaw himself and former NBC News chief Steve Capus in the deception. But then, the NYP is not exactly a credible source of news either... http://pagesix.com/2015/02/05/tom-brokaw-wants-brian-williams-fired/?_ga=1.195675109.878267734.1421128900 -- -- 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.
