
According to Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, NBC News executives knew Brian Williams had a problem with the truth but the infrastructure wasn’t in place to do anything about it. Per Dowd, things were so bad with Williams that his “flourishes to puff himself up” became “a joke in the news division.”
by John Nolte7 Feb 2015, 1:06 PM PST0

UPDATE: A blogger who goes by the name of SooperMexican was the first to report this discrepancy. Per this CNN Money report, a Brian Williams’ Katrina tale appears to have evolved somewhat dramatically over the course of just one year.
by John Nolte7 Feb 2015, 12:39 PM PST0

Completely separate from the 2003 Iraq helicopter incident Brian Williams confessed to lying about this week, thanks to a Twitter user who alerted Ace Of Spades, we now have a 2007 video of Williams claiming he was involved in a hairy wartime incident involving a different helicopter during a different war.
by John Nolte7 Feb 2015, 9:52 AM PST0

The New York Post reports that Brian Williams can’t even keep his puppy-saving tales straight. In October of 2011, Williams spoke of the time he saved a puppy as a teenage volunteer firefighter: “I remember one such house fire . . .
by John Nolte7 Feb 2015, 8:01 AM PST0

A man identified by Variety as a “celebrity brand expert” polled 1,000 people familiar with the ongoing scandal surround NBC’s Brian Williams and found that an incredible 80% believe he needs to lose his chair as anchor and managing editor
by John Nolte7 Feb 2015, 7:11 AM PST0

Good news: NBC has agreed to investigate an NBC employee about reportorial misdeeds at NBC. This is how the news media works today, folks. A bombshell report from the New York Daily News claims that Brian Williams’ claims about Katrina
by John Nolte6 Feb 2015, 10:47 AM PST0

In an email exchange with the Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw disputed reports that he is calling for Brian Williams to be fired. Brokaw, however, is obviously not defending or standing by his successor.
by John Nolte6 Feb 2015, 9:40 AM PST0

The source CNN media reporter Brian Stelter introduced to the world as the man “who was piloting the Chinook that Williams was on,” is now backing off his claim. And Stelter is now all but admitting he was burned by
by John Nolte6 Feb 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

The question of whether or not Brian Williams can survive lying for 12 years about being shot down by enemy fire over Iraq in 2003 is one thing. Now a whole new series of questions have arisen surrounding Williams’ heroic
by John Nolte6 Feb 2015, 7:41 AM PST0

The Brian Williams’ stolen valor scandal has moved to page A1 of the New York Times and in the worst possible way. The Times is questioning the veracity of the NBC anchor’s on-air apology during Wednesday’s edition of the NBC
by John Nolte6 Feb 2015, 6:22 AM PST0

Although other military witnesses on the scene at the time claim the chopper NBC’s Brian Williams flew in was an hour behind the Chinook shot down in 2003, Politico’s media reporter Dylan Byers is asking his readers to take those
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 1:06 PM PST0

CNN “New Day” co-host Chris Cuomo didn’t defend NBC’s Brian Williams for telling a stolen valor lie repeatedly over 12 years, but he did use the occasion to rip “lesser [online] outlets and the growing mass of the angry.” “They,”
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 12:43 PM PST0

Variety’s Brian Steinberg reports on a potential bombshell in the fast-moving story of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and his 12 year-old stolen valor lie about his helicopter being shot down by an enemy RPG over Iraq in 2003.
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 11:39 AM PST0

Travis J. Tritten, the Stars and Stripes reporter who broke the Brian Williams bombshell Wednesday, reports today that soldiers who were in Iraq with Williams in 2003 are blasting the Nightly News anchors on-air apology Wednesday night as “misleading“: Apologies
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 10:55 AM PST0

The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple sees the Brian Williams scandal as a bigger than just one person — a serious problem for NBC News in general. While it is obvious the network never vetted or noticed the evolution of their
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures Chief Amy Pascal is exiting the studio due to a “shakeup at the top.” The news comes as no surprise and just a couple months after a devastating hack revealed that the studio head
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 9:09 AM PST0

Writing for the Baltimore Sun, media journalist David Zurawik called for Brian Williams to resign or to be fired by Friday. “If credibility means anything to NBC News, Brian Williams will no longer be managing editor and anchor of the
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 9:01 AM PST0

Per CNN, during a March of 2005 interview with the late Tim Russert, Brian Williams’ stolen valor lie about a helicopter he was riding in being shot down by an RPG over Iraq hadn’t yet fully evolved into him being
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 7:08 AM PST0

During a WNYC interview with Alec Baldwin in March of 2013, NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams told the television actor that he was “briefly” afraid he might die after the Chinook helicopter he was riding in
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 6:39 AM PST0

In the video below, at the 10 minute mark, you can watch NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams smile smugly and bask in the glow of David Letterman referring to him as a “war hero” during a March 2013 appearance
by John Nolte5 Feb 2015, 5:51 AM PST0

— ***SECOND UPDATE: TV Newser reports that Williams’ story got more dramatic over time. ***UPDATE: Starting at the 3:50 mark below, you can watch Williams tell David Letterman this fabricated story. The level of detail is astonishing. After the story, Letterman
by John Nolte4 Feb 2015, 4:08 PM PST0

When you’re losing to a train wreck like the left-wing CNN, something drastic needs to change and a according to the Wrap, change in the form of a bloodbath is coming to third-place MSNBC. Currently, network president Phil Griffin’s ax
by John Nolte4 Feb 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

In a just-released New Hampshire poll, Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker, the one potential presidential candidate attractive to both the GOP Establishment and the Base, has benefited most from Romney’s exit from the race. The poll shows Walker is way
by John Nolte4 Feb 2015, 10:10 AM PST0

Regarding The Great Vaccination Primary of 2016, the truth is that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul did not say the exact same thing the White House did, and therefore both deserve the media drubbing they
by John Nolte4 Feb 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

Fox News has released a statement Tuesday responding to the news that Lindsay and Dina Lohan are filing a defamation suit against the cable news network for remarks made on “Hannity” a year ago: We will defend this case to the
by John Nolte3 Feb 2015, 11:22 AM PST0