Disgraced former TV news anchor Dan Rather has come to the aid of embattled NBC anchor Brian Williams, saying that Williams is an “honest man.” But Williams is caught up in a scandal of his own making after admitting to lying about being in a helicopter downed by enemy RPG fire in Iraq in 2003.
Author and military mother Mary Ward relays a story of talking to NBC producer Justin Balding, who says he rode in the same helicopter as Brian Williams and also claims the Chinook was hit by an RPG. The year of this event is unclear, but Ward’s book was published in October 2004, so the interaction with Balding would have to occur some time before then:
Fox News Media Analyst and “Mediabuzz” host Howard Kurtz said that Brian Williams was “too big to fail” at NBC and that “if another correspondent had told such a false story on the air he’d be lucky to get away
Despite an admission by NBC News’ Brian Williams that for the last 12 years he has repeatedly and falsely claimed that he was in a helicopter that was hit by an enemy RPG in a war zone in Iraq, NBC executives are still standing behind their nightly news anchor.
The New York Post’s Page Six quotes an anonymous NBC source who says the network stands behind Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and will not punish him in any way for repeating a false story for 12 years.
CNN Senior Media Correspondent and “Reliable Sources” Brian Stelter reported that he couldn’t find “many people at NBC” who think Brian Williams’ erroneous helicopter story was “an innocent mistake” on Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom.” “One thing is clear, and that is,
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
— ***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
President Barack Obama told the Today Show the United States is working to release a 26-year-old American woman from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The terrorists captured the woman on August 30.
Media morality watchdog The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE) issued a statement Monday questioning NBC’s decision to air both a domestic violence PSA and a trailer for the “sexually violent” film Fifty Shades of Grey during Sunday night’s Super Bowl broadcast.
On “Morning Joe” Thursday, Ayman Mohyeldin, a NBC News foreign correspondent, lied about and defamed American Sniper Chris Kyle as a “racist” who went on “killing sprees.” — — Kudos to NBC’s Willie Geist for pushing back with the truth.
In the media’s ongoing and hysterically desperate effort to defame Chris Kyle and “American Sniper,” the film about his life, a dishonest narrative is increasingly being built around Kyle’s repeated use of the word “savages.” Kyle described only terrorists as
Television’s top news anchor, NBC’s Brian Williams, earns a reported $13 million a year to read the news. This disparity far surpasses the 150-1 ratio earned by the average CEO.
NBC News Terrorism Analyst Evan Kohlmann argued that while there was “no excuse” for the terrorist attacks on French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France should try to deal with its Islamophobia and that “will hopefully help dissuade” potential terrorists on Wednesday’s
For 6 weeks to two months Lena Dunham and her publisher Random House knowingly allowed an innocent man (we identify as Barry One) to twist in the wind under a false accusation of rape. You wouldn’t know that, though, from
NBC’s Today Show reportedly canceled an interview with Amy Adams this week after the star informed them she was not comfortable with discussing the fallout from the Sony hacking scandal.
A medical marijuana dispensary in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, California was forced to remove a decal depicting Santa Claus smoking marijuana after dozens of complaints were lodged against the pot shop on Facebook. Last week, the Harbor
An Iraq War veteran accused of murdering his ex-wife and five of her family members was found dead on Tuesday in the back woods nearby his Pennsylvania home. Bradley Stone died of self-inflicted cutting wounds to the center of his
Just hours after he announced his plan “actively explore” a 2016 presidential run on Monday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would have “no problems” pushing for comprehensive immigration reform in a GOP primary. “We’ve got to protect the
Just hours after he announced his plan “actively explore” a 2016 presidential run on Monday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would have “no problems” pushing for comprehensive immigration reform in a GOP primary. “We’ve got to protect the
Despite, or perhaps because of Barack Obama being in the White House – many feel he’s done more harm than good to race relations in America – an NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll “showed the most pessimistic assessment of racial
Andrea Mitchell apparently disagrees with her own network’s polling services after dismissing a poll that shows that Americans agree with the CIA’s advanced interrogation tactics. Mitchell was on her MSNBC show on Tuesday, December 16, when the topic of the
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday declined to file any charges against Bill Cosby after a woman recently claimed the comedian molested her around 1974. The rejection of a child sexual abuse charge by prosecutors came roughly
Comedian Bill Cosby has had his endowed professorship suspended by Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, after mounting accusations that he drugged and sexually assaulted more than 20 women. The college released a statement in regards to a program that
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former Vice President Dick Cheney rebutted show moderator Chuck Todd, who proposed what might happen if ISIS water boarded a captured American as a reason for the United States not to use that method
