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Should Brian Williams be fired

Should Brian be fired?

  • Yes

    Votes: 36 60.0%

  • No

    Votes: 24 40.0%
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ironhorse

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I say yes! What a freakin liar! How can anyone believe a word he says now? The man has lost all credibility.

NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams last night had to make the humiliating admission that he was not aboard a helicopter hit by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that he made and was repeated by the network for years.

Williams — who’d claimed he was in a chopper forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade 12 years ago — repeated the story on Friday’s newscast during a tribute for a retired sergeant major.

“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq, when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams said on Friday’s show. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor-mechanized platoon from the US Army 3rd Infantry.”


He was busted when vet Lance Reynolds commented on the “Nightly News” Facebook page, where the clip was posted, “Sorry, dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.”

Amid a vicious ratings battle with ABC’s “World News Tonight,” which has positioned anchor David Muir as an equally strong on-the-scene reporter, Williams, who has a $10 million-a-year deal with NBC, made an embarrassing apology.

He claimed on Facebook that he had confused events: “I spent much of the weekend thinking I’d gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake.” Stars and Stripes, which broke the story, reported that a different Chinook was hit by rockets and “the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft . . . Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter.”


Brian Williams admits he wasn’t on helicopter hit by RPG in Iraq | Page Six
 
Confused the events my butt. Yeah when people lie like that it's hard to believe any of their stories. I like Muir better anyway so I don't really care what happens to Williams but I wouldn't watch him after this incident for sure and if others follow the network wouldn't really have a choice anyway.
 
Not buying his explanation. Pretty sure you'd know if it was your helicopter hit or not.
 
americanwoman said:
Confused the events my butt. Yeah when people lie like that it's hard to believe any of their stories. I like Muir better anyway so I don't really care what happens to Williams but I wouldn't watch him after this incident for sure and if others follow the network wouldn't really have a choice anyway.
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You don't "confuse" something like that. You either lie or you have a problem discerning reality from fantasy and either way the man is unfit for his position on the nightly news.
 
I say, who cares? His work as a news anchor is fine. He screwed up a story about himself, nobody was killed in the process, he admitted it. It's just an interesting footnote in the history of the mainstream media.

I'm getting a little tired in the days of social media, where everyone has the opportunity to butt into the lives of others, calls for action against people who are really strangers. I also think tweeting for social causes, as if tweeting bring back our girls, was going to influence Boko Haram, is a sign of a mental disorder. News flash, nobody cares and it's not important.
 
sawdust said:
I say, who cares? His work as a news anchor is fine. He screwed up a story about himself, nobody was killed in the process, he admitted it. It's just an interesting footnote in the history of the mainstream media.

I'm getting a little tired in the days of social media, where everyone has the opportunity to butt into the lives of others, calls for action against people who are really strangers. I also think tweeting for social causes, as if tweeting bring back our girls, was going to influence Boko Haram, is a sign of a mental disorder. News flash, nobody cares and it's not important.[/QUOTE]

Maybe you are fine with a liar or a man who has lost touch with reality being the one who "informs" America every evening but I for one am not.
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ironhorse said:
sawdust said:
I say, who cares? His work as a news anchor is fine. He screwed up a story about himself, nobody was killed in the process, he admitted it. It's just an interesting footnote in the history of the mainstream media.

I'm getting a little tired in the days of social media, where everyone has the opportunity to butt into the lives of others, calls for action against people who are really strangers. I also think tweeting for social causes, as if tweeting bring back our girls, was going to influence Boko Haram, is a sign of a mental disorder. News flash, nobody cares and it's not important.[/QUOTE]

Maybe you are fine with a liar or a man who has lost touch with reality being the one who "informs" America every evening but I for one am not.
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I'm a free market guy. The market will take care of Mr. Williams if as many people feel about him as you do. Personally, I don't watch him, never have and don't care.
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ironhorse said:
I say yes! What a freakin liar! How can anyone believe a word he says now? The man has lost all credibility.

NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams last night had to make the humiliating admission that he was not aboard a helicopter hit by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that he made and was repeated by the network for years.

Williams — who’d claimed he was in a chopper forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade 12 years ago — repeated the story on Friday’s newscast during a tribute for a retired sergeant major.

“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq, when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams said on Friday’s show. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor-mechanized platoon from the US Army 3rd Infantry.”


He was busted when vet Lance Reynolds commented on the “Nightly News” Facebook page, where the clip was posted, “Sorry, dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.”

Amid a vicious ratings battle with ABC’s “World News Tonight,” which has positioned anchor David Muir as an equally strong on-the-scene reporter, Williams, who has a $10 million-a-year deal with NBC, made an embarrassing apology.

He claimed on Facebook that he had confused events: “I spent much of the weekend thinking I’d gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake.” Stars and Stripes, which broke the story, reported that a different Chinook was hit by rockets and “the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft . . . Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter.”


Brian Williams admits he wasn’t on helicopter hit by RPG in Iraq | Page Six
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Indeed. Fired Mike Wallace for something far less than even this 'embellishment' to this story. So much for 'accuracy in media' and 'journalistic integrity'.

Makes you wonder what else he's not been truthfully reporting.
 
Lied initially, and then perpetuated the lie during the interrum. The only reason he came clean was because he was called on it by an actual participant.

His credibility is now as suspect as his flawed memory. Resign Brian... at least to honor professional integrity.
 
X Factor said:
Not buying his explanation. Pretty sure you'd know if it was your helicopter hit or not.
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Maybe, but Hillary Clinton was also once quite confused by the fog of war. ;)

She imagined being under sniper fire (proving that she is human).
 
eohrnberger said:
A lying Democrat presidential candidate to replace a lying Democrat president incumbent? Seriously?
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But she insisted that lying just helps one appear more human. ;)

In politics (and now the press?) image is everything and the truth is not nearly so important.
 
ironhorse said:
I say yes! What a freakin liar! How can anyone believe a word he says now? The man has lost all credibility.

NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams last night had to make the humiliating admission that he was not aboard a helicopter hit by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that he made and was repeated by the network for years.

Williams — who’d claimed he was in a chopper forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade 12 years ago — repeated the story on Friday’s newscast during a tribute for a retired sergeant major.

“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq, when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams said on Friday’s show. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor-mechanized platoon from the US Army 3rd Infantry.”


He was busted when vet Lance Reynolds commented on the “Nightly News” Facebook page, where the clip was posted, “Sorry, dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.”

Amid a vicious ratings battle with ABC’s “World News Tonight,” which has positioned anchor David Muir as an equally strong on-the-scene reporter, Williams, who has a $10 million-a-year deal with NBC, made an embarrassing apology.

He claimed on Facebook that he had confused events: “I spent much of the weekend thinking I’d gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake.” Stars and Stripes, which broke the story, reported that a different Chinook was hit by rockets and “the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft . . . Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter.”


Brian Williams admits he wasn’t on helicopter hit by RPG in Iraq | Page Six
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Yes, he should go. Totally irresponsible and a disgrace to journalism.
 
Not my call (obviously) as I'm not senior management at NBC.

If I WAS senior management there, and the decision was up to me, he would be relieved of his duties as anchor, but not necessarily fired. I would probably give him a new assignment that isn't so plum as the one he has, and I would definitely adjust his salary to account for the downgrade.
 
Simpleχity;1064277597 said:
Lied initially, and then perpetuated the lie during the interrum. The only reason he came clean was because he was called on it by an actual participant.

His credibility is now as suspect as his flawed memory. Resign Brian... at least to honor professional integrity.
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Here's what I don't understand. The media regularly orchestrates stories about public policy in which they either stretch the truth, omit facts or twist statistics. These things they do in the coarse of their regular reporting. Slanted media does much more harm to the country than what one news anchor says about him self.

Save your righteous indignation for those things that are important and affect our lives. That's why so many have disdain for MSNBC and Fox. Things they say affect us. Brian Williams story does not.
 
Nah...NBC should keep him on board and he should keep promoting his lame ass excuse that anyone with a pulse and a measurable IQ can see through. I cant think of a better continuing indictment of Network News than "Hi...this is the NBC Nightly News and I'm Brian Williams"
 
ttwtt78640 said:
But she insisted that lying just helps one appear more human. ;)

In politics (and now the press?) image is everything and the truth is not nearly so important.
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Geezus...I hope my kids don't try that excuse. "But Mom, it made me appear more human!". Then I'd be even madder at the attempt to insult my intelligence on top of the lie.
 
tres borrachos said:
Not my call (obviously) as I'm not senior management at NBC.

If I WAS senior management there, and the decision was up to me, he would be relieved of his duties as anchor, but not necessarily fired. I would probably give him a new assignment that isn't so plum as the one he has, and I would definitely adjust his salary to account for the downgrade.
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Good morning TB - perhaps reassigning him to front line reporting in Syria or Iraq so he could get some real stories to reminisce about.
 
tres borrachos said:
Geezus...I hope my kids don't try that excuse. "But Mom, it made me appear more human!". Then I'd be even madder at the attempt to insult my intelligence on top of the lie.
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It seems that folks now insert like into nearly every sentence. "I was like under heavy sniper fire" means that you were in a zone placed under a security alert but were not actually exposed to any gunfire. ;)
 
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