NBC News has to be ecstatic with the two-fer they pulled off by suspending the disgraced Brian Williams for six months. The suspension killed the media fury around Williams’ serial lies and Williams’ replacement, Lester Holt, has managed to hold
Given both the crisis still in progress at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the controversy over NBC News’ Brian Williams getting in trouble for a phony story of taking fire in Iraq, this was not a good moment for a combo scandal in which the new VA Secretary, Robert McDonald, got caught making a false claim of serving with U.S. Special Forces.
The White House issued a statement Monday saying, “We take him at his word and expect that this will not impact the important work he’s doing to promote the health and well-being of our nation’s veterans.”
Here’s some news: the Mainstream Media isn’t fond of Bill O’Reilly. Okay, that was a joke—MSM hatred of O’Reilly is well known. Neither is it news that O’Reilly doesn’t much like the MSM—and the recent Mother Jones hit piece, “Bill O’Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem,” only deepens the mutual antipathy.
Fox News Channel “O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly responded to allegations made by Mother Jones that he misrepresented some of his reporting in Argentina and El Salvador on Friday. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly thanks for watching us tonight,
Brian Williams has not resigned from NBC News over reports of a history of lies, but he has stepped down from the board of directors of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, where he had served since 2006. The foundation announced Williams’ resignation Thursday.
The Media Research Center’s new poll confirms the outrage of Americans over Brian Williams’ web of deceit. The poll found that 66.1% of the 1,007 respondents thought that Williams should have been fired rather than NBC’s decision to suspend him without pay.
While the likes of Jon Stewart and Charlie Sheen have come forward to defend disgraced NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams for lying about his coverage of the Iraq War, neither have come out as wholeheartedly as Girls star and daughter, Allison Williams.
If suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams thought he was invaluable to the success of the NBC Nightly News, the ratings for the first full week without him are bound to be a disappointment. Williams’ replacement Lester Holt held on
Survey says: CNN reports on parts of a poll that seem favorable to Brian Williams, ignores parts that don’t.
How in the world did NBC News let its biggest star and face of its division run around America for more than ten years telling stolen valor lies, lie-lies, whoppers, white lies, exaggerations, and — if you want to be
A production company is set to release an independent film, Truth, about CBS anchor Dan Rather’s self-destruction. The release is oddly timed, since Rather just stepped to the defense of NBC’s disgraced anchor Brian Williams.
Over the last few days, the uproar about news anchor Brian Williams’ claims of taking fire in Iraq in 2003 has reached extraordinary heights. I was amazed at the PhotoShopping frenzy that took place when his deception came to light. Images of Williams eating pizza with Jesus at the Last Supper; sitting in Ford’s Theater at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; and crossing the Delaware with General George Washington filled my Facebook feed and probably yours as well. They were all fake, all funny and all pretty much outrageous.
The New York Post’s Kyle Smith dissects Jon Stewart’s Daily Show segment defending disgraced NBC New Managing Editor Brian Williams.
On Friday’s broadcast of “NewsHour” on PBS, New York Times columnist David Brooks shared his view on the controversy surrounding NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams and the issue of his six-month suspension from the network after having been shown
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized the news media for not devoting enough time to climate change on Friday. “Brian Williams shouldn’t have to go away because he lied. He should have to go away because the ‘NBC Nightly
In an appearance on Colin Cowherd’s radio on Friday as a guest of Cowherd’s ESPN radio show “The Herd With Colin Cowherd,” Jason Whitlock, a sportswriter for ESPN, responded to Cowherd’s question about what he would have done if he
From CNN Money: As NBC’s fact-checking continues, two accounts from Williams’ younger days could also invite scrutiny. As a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York in 1989, Williams traveled to Berlin to cover the demolition of the Berlin Wall. The
Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” former White House chief of staff to President George H. W. Bush, John Sununu, said NBC News’ Brian Williams being suspended and losing $5 million in pay over falsely claiming he was
More trouble for NBC’s Brian Williams. In 2012, he told David Letterman: “I flew into Baghdad, invasion plus three days, on a blackout mission at night with elements of SEAL Team Six,” but at that time he was based in, and apparently didn’t leave, Kuwait.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams may have been suspended without pay for six months for stretching the truth, but at least he’s found a new ally in actor Charlie Sheen.
More details are emerging about Brian Williams and his reporting mission in Iraq in 2003. Army vets confirm there were two different missions, and say Williams and his NBC team were on one that did not take fire.
Senior Independent Contributor to the Daily Signal and former CBS Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson argued that Hillary Clinton’s and Brian Williams’ war zone deceptions were “very much like the other” on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “I would just
The Drudge Report claims that Savannah Guthrie is the leading candidate to replace NBC’s Nightly News anchor Brian Williams if he is ultimately fired.
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.
Fox News Media Analyst Howard Kurtz argued that the suspension of Brian Williams was an attempt to save his job and that the suspension had “a hell of a lot” to do with NBC’s lack of a deep bench on
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reported that NBC News was not making its executives available to conduct interviews with MSNBC on the suspension of “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams on Tuesday. During her coverage of Williams’ suspension, Maddow said “here’s
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
Although NBC anchor Brian Williams has taken leave from his full-time job of delivering the news each night, he remains a member of the board of directors for the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation (CMOHF).
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
After he was caught lying about being shot down in a helicopter at the start of the Iraq War, NBC’s Brian Williams has plummeted 812 spots on an important trustworthy index. Williams, who is the face of the network’s news
On Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC, “The O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly talked about the controversy involving NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams and allegation he had embellished various stories throughout his career. O’Reilly condemned those that are enjoying
NBC anchor Brian Williams has changed his story about the Iraq war over the years. But he was actually changing it in real time. A review of transcripts shows Williams evolved his version over the course of a day in March, 2003.
At the opening of his Monday “The Daily Show” broadcast on Comedy Central reacted to the controversies swirling around embattled NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams. Stewart mocked the increased media scrutiny of Williams and his career, but went on
Monday on Newsmax TV’s “America’s Forum,” political pundit Dick Morris said NBC News anchor Brian Williams, Hillary Clinton and former vice president Al Gore all have “deep personalty disorders,” evidenced by their almost compulsive need to “put themselves in every
Fox News Media Analyst Howard Kurtz stated that “NBC, very desperately would like to hang onto” Brian Williams, but that “it’s getting increasingly difficult to do that” on Monday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “I think NBC, very
Monday, “Stars and Stripes” released the full audio and transcript of its interview with NBC News anchor Brian Williams from last week. In the February 4 interview, Williams admits he was mistaken when he said he was on the helicopter
As more reporters examine NBC News’ Brian Williams’ “embellishments,” it appears that NBC was aware of their anchor’s tall tales.
