I have a very clear memory of flying around the crab apple tree in our front yard when I was a child. What are you trying to say? That it was some other kind of tree?
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 4:13 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > My argument about Williams has always been that his misstatements were > unfortunate given his profession, and that he should resolve to do better, > but that they were not by themselves disqualifying. He did not make > mistakes about events he was reporting, he made mistakes about his own > personal experience. If in an interview a historian mis remembers attending > a Beatles concert as a teen, that does not necessarily decrease the > credibility of his book about the Vietnam War. > > I think most people assume Williams was consciously lying to make himself > look heroic, which might tend to make them think he was an unreliable > reporter. I think he was victim of the kind of common, every day memory > illusions that plague all of us, and that did not directly relate to his > professional work. I would hate to have millions of fact checkers > researching every one of the personal anecdotes I used to tell as a college > teacher. > > My view at the time and now is that Williams had become so comfortable as > a guest on talk shows that he allowed that informal raconteur role to leak > into his news reporter persona. I thought he should not have been banned > from his job at NBC, but should have stopped appearing as a personality on > entertainment shows (though I did always enjoy him on TDS). > > All’s well that ends well. I never watch the NBC Nightly News, but often > watch Williams’ “The 11th Hour” on MSNBC, which I think during the Trump > Era has consistently been the best hour of news on commercial television. > > > > As I tried to point out during all the hyperventilating during the Brian >> > Williams affair, this kind of thing is not related to honesty, or even >> to >> > memory impairment >> >> The important difference here is that if we have to take Hanks' stories >> with a grain of salt, fine; as long as they're entertaining (which Hanks' >> stories usually are), it's okay. But if we have to take the NBC Nightly >> News with a grain of salt, they're in trouble. >> >> -- >> 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]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOFEAH-e0S8YKHgDcHHKmD4DVDvQOQLpGyYcEuYy%2BO4QqA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOFEAH-e0S8YKHgDcHHKmD4DVDvQOQLpGyYcEuYy%2BO4QqA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BUJx6OFAb8tCt%3DJEuX%2B%3DgvFDvPTNf%3D-Jr0pPWukb0bkg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BUJx6OFAb8tCt%3DJEuX%2B%3DgvFDvPTNf%3D-Jr0pPWukb0bkg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4eHb67%2BPrLWFry2b5LvwTDWTBk1WMRCCfcF2m8PXTPdMQ%40mail.gmail.com.
