The president of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Masoud Barzani, blamed former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki for the turmoil in the country where the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has recently gained more territory.
Ayman Mohyeldin is advertised by NBC News as an objective reporter. This objective reporter became infamous earlier this year for lying about and smearing a decorated veteran sniper, the late Chris Kyle, as a “racist” who went on anti-Muslim “killing
With the news that the “NBC Nightly News” has now lost to ABC’s “World News Tonight” for four weeks in a row, the fall of NBC News is nearly complete. The “Nightly News” now joins the once-mighty franchises of “Meet
Another day, another leaked log on the fire of the end of Brian Williams’ career. The latest leak went to the Washington Post’s Paul Farhi, who learned Saturday that the ongoing internal NBC investigation into Williams’ serial-embellishments has thus far
From the New York Times: An NBC News internal investigation into Brian Williams has examined a half-dozen instances in which he is thought to have fabricated, misrepresented or embellished his accounts, two people with knowledge of the investigation said. The
The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi makes it clear that the internal NBC rebellion against the suspended Brian Williams occurred back in February, at the height of the scandal. “Sentiments may have calmed down … since,” he writes. Considering the embarrassing
After NBC News anchor Brian Williams was caught lying about being in a helicopter over Iraq that took enemy fire, according to Vanity Fair, he wondered aloud if he had a brain tumor. Turness and the other executives who had
According to an extensive Vanity Fair article looking at the trials and tribulations of NBC News, the ongoing internal investigation of suspended-NBC News anchor Brian Williams has resulted in the discovery of a “number of incidents” that “paint a portrait
As he returns to run the NBC News Group, Andy Lack faces one of the same puzzles he tried to solve a decade and a half ago: how to make MSNBC work.
One unbiased, objective cable news analyst was caught on video claiming a presidential candidate was so hateful and racist he wanted to party while black people drowned. Another described a decorated Navy SEAL as a racist spree killer. Still, both
Dr. Nancy Snyderman and NBC News announced a parting of the ways Thursday. In a statement, Snyderman said that she is returning to academia. In its own statement, NBC News wished her “all the best.” Snyderman served as NBC’s chief
Actor Harrison Ford’s decision to crash-land his vintage airplane on a Los Angeles, CA golf course Thursday may have saved lives, according to witnesses and a representative for the National Transportation Safety Board.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, sat down with NBC News this week for an exclusive interview. NBC’s headline for the interview is: “Iran Foreign Minister: We Believe We Are ‘Very Close’ to Nuke Deal.” But the Times of Israel noted a buried lede–“Zarif: The Netanyahu regime ‘should be annihilated’.” While the American editors focused on boosting prospects for President Barack Obama’s signature diplomatic initiative, their Israeli counterparts focused on the threat that remains.
Both Variety and the Associated Press are reporting that the future of newly-installed (in 2013) NBC News President Deborah Turness is now up in the air. After bungling a Today Show leadership change and the agonizing firing of “Meet the
NBC News is giving host Savannah Guthrie a shot to show them what she can do with the Nightly News as she spends the next few days filling in for temporary anchor Lester Holt.
A new Wall Street Journal /NBC News poll confirms that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity among Americans has grown since last August, when Israel fought Hamas in the Gaza War. Currently, 30% of Americans now view him positively, as opposed to 24% in August, despite apparent rising tensions between the Obama administration and the Prime Minister.
A U.S. intelligence officer told NBC News the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) will not likely team up with Nigerian radical Islamic group Boko Haram in any official capacity due to the group’s racism against black Africans.
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
In 2006, on NBC’s Today Show, former-Vice President Al Gore predicted that Manhattan would be flooded in “15 to 20 years.” He added, “In fact the World Trade Center Memorial site would be underwater.” Just 3 years ago, the New
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
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
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.
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.
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.