New York Magazine points out a bunch of other tall tales that Williams has reportedly told, including rolling into Baghdad with SEAL Team 6 and meeting Pope John Paul II (no word on whether BriWi reported that the Pope was catholic, but at this point I'd wait for independent confirmation.)
Much as I thought the initial thing was kind of overblown, I don't see how he comes back from all of this stuff being thrown at him. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/williams-might-have-also-lied-about-seals.html On Fri Feb 13 2015 at 11:17:09 AM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > The NY Times has a background story (with, of course, no attribution > whatsoever, so you know NBC pushed this to them) with the timeline of how > it went down. > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/business/media/frantic-efforts-at-nbc-to-curb-rising-damage-caused-by-brian-williams.html > > Short version: everything PGage and I have said in this thread is > fundamentally correct. > > For the record: the program airing at 6:30 PM weeknights on the NBC > television network is now called "NBC Nightly News". > > On Tue Feb 10 2015 at 7:05:07 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Six month suspension without pay, per Brian Stelter via NBC sources >> >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015, 09:00 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. > -- -- 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.
