There’s a bigger point here: the same people Dan Rather once derided as idiots in “pajamas” have completely reshaped the mainstream media. Were it not for those nefarious Snidely Whiplashes of the keyboard, Brian Williams would still be anchoring the nightly news while stumping for Jay Leno’s old job.
Here’s a crisis communications primer for suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams, whose career is now in mortal jeopardy.
According to various reports, including CNN’s Brian Stelter and Politco’s Dylan Byers, embattled NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams will be suspended without pay from the network six months. According to a memo obtain by CNN and Politico from NBC News
From all the reports flying around, it seems as though former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw is now the elder statesman of the news division, and he is not at all happy with the fact that his predecessor, Brian Williams, has
If you don’t already despise the elite media, the next few paragraphs should put the final pieces into place. No joke, some high-profile members of the elite media are now on their high horse (if you’ll pardon the expression) over
Former FEMA Director Michael Brown called “B.S.” on embattled NBC anchor Brian Williams’s claims that he saw a dead body floating outside of his hotel room during Hurricane Katrina. Williams, who lied about having been shot down in a helicopter
In a 2009 interview with the New Jersey Star-Ledger, Brian Williams regales the reporter with tales from his hardscrabble youth, including the specific events that prompted him to drop out of college. But just four years earlier, Williams told a
Without crediting those online [UPDATE: Via Twitter Farhi told me he credited New Media in an earlier report.] who were the first to find, report, and highlight this story the previous day, The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi is at least
A source familiar with the operations of NBC News is defending producer Justin Balding, saying he never told NBC colleagues a chopper he was riding in with Brian Williams was hit by RPGs in Iraq in 2003.
There are several inconsistencies in Brian Williams’s puppy-savior story. His story of courage and heroism should rightly be met with skepticism.
NEW YORK (AP) — Embattled NBC News anchor Brian Williams is backing out of scheduled appearance on David Letterman’s “Late Show” on Thursday.
UPDATE: Politico’s Mike Allen states on Twitter that an NBC source tells him Williams has cancelled his appearance on Letterman. https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/564543945943044096 According to an NBC News source who spoke with Howard Kurtz at Fox News, Brian Williams is seriously considering
Tom Brokaw is the highest-profile dissenter to call for the ouster of Brian Williams over his stolen valor helicopter story, but he’s not the only one.
Per an email from NBC News, Brian Williams just passed a note along to the NBC News staff that says he will not be hosting the Nightly News for the next several days. Lester Holt will take his place.
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.”
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
The ground beneath NBC anchor Brian Williams’ feet grew more unstable on Thursday, as the New York Post reports NBC News icon Tom Brokaw is calling for Williams to be fired after he was forced to recant a phony story about taking fire in Iraq that he’s been telling for years.
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
