On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:
> This tells me NBC couldn't find a way out of the contract and couldn't > reach a settlement to buy him out. > Yes - but another way of saying the same things is that it suggests that the exhaustive investigation has not yielded evidence that his exaggerations and misstatements rose to the level of lying or malfeasance. I suspect that if anyone else who talks on television for a living as much as Williams has were subjected to the same level of scrutiny, a significant number of similar examples of exaggerations and misstatements would be found. This is a PR problem for NBC, not a journalistic one. Banishing him to MSNBC for a while gives him a chance to either show the public will forgive and or forget within a year, and he can move back to the Mothership, or it won't, and he can be eased out. As the article notes, MSNBC-Limbo also keeps Williams gagged, so that he can not go on Colbert and dump all over NBC News. The bullshit here though is the representation that Williams exaggerations and mis-remembrances are somehow a threat to his credibility as a TV journalist. As I have been arguing since this story began, whatever you think of what Williams has said on late night shows, it pales in comparison with the crap TV regularly dishes out and expects to be consumed as credible news. One of Williams' main in-house judges is the guy who reported with little or no evidence that Richard Jewell was going to be arrested for blowing up the Atlanta Olympics. -- -- 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.
