If Williams loses his job, it is likely to be because of this kind of thing, not so much the first thing.
Questions are now being raised about the validity of some of his reporting from Katrina - the story on which he made his bones as NBC News Anchor. If he either did lie in that reporting (which would not have been a memory issue, since it was based on contemporaneous reports) or he did not, but it becomes obvious the public has lost so much confidence in his credibility that they believe he lied even without evidence to establish it, his value as a news anchor will have evaporated. >From the Salon story: http://www.salon.com/2015/02/06/brian_williams_mess_gets_deeper_anchor_now_confronts_questions_over_hurricane_katrina_claims/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow "But the New Orleans Advocate reports that some of Williams’ most > sensational stories from the period don’t dovetail with reality. During a > 2006 interview, Williams recounted witnessing bodies floating outside his > hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans — a district that never flooded, > as much of the rest of the city did." There are a few other questions in the Advocate's report, but the floating body in the French Quarter issue seems to me to be the only one worth really exploring in detail at this point. -- -- 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.
