NBC is leaking this so they can deny him a 30 million severance/ golden parchute. The insider dynamics are fascinating.

It's unbelievable to me that NBC is only just now discovering these exaggerations and fabrications. (Assuming they are exaggerations and fabrications -- how would I know since I trust NBC checked the facts when the stories were first on the news.)

This looks worse for NBC than it does for Brian Williams. That NBC news broadcast all these lies without checking the sources and veracity and then comes up years later to admit to their sloppy journalism practices? How can we trust anything we see or hear on NBC if they are this careless and irresponsible?

So it makes me wonder whether NBC is now exaggerating what happened. Why did they delay checking these stories until now?

This looks really bad for NBC in my view.

And is there some big change going on at NBC? Is the news section being seriously redirected?

Will that affect MSNBC? What is the real story? I don't think we know yet.

Don't just be a fall guy, air all the dirty laundry.

Glad you're here! Yeah, I think he's finished, too. OUCHez-vous! I think about it and I grimace. The network can't have a compromised anchorman as the face of its news division. This is becoming too big a mess. He can't come back.

Seeing as it was staged to make Americans hate Syrians and go to war. They're both disgusting.

If whoever said that is correct, one deception is worse, but Engels did not deceive. Williams did.

and the story would have blown over by now.

Rest of media please take note Fox admits it is pure propaganda by openly admitting it does not care for truth by defending Liar Bill.

Claim they are impartial and bring you the "news".

asking for too much impartiality to state the obvious?

I don't give a shite. Once corporate media treat issues fairly, screw them.

seriously injured.. Bill O never put himself in harm’s way and he’s doing just fine with his bosses..

much the same? Rarely does a news source actually report on a story that is not reported by all news media.

Now, we know that a lot of stories are given no publicity at all, no news coverage anywhere. What is going on here?

I would expect the major news media, the really big ones to have, each, its own kind of coverage of different stories and make different choices about what the most important story is or stories are. But???? There seems to be some agreement on most days about what the headline stories should be. Surely I am wrong about this, but the news is pretty boring and uniform in that respect seems to me.

The third filter in our propaganda model is what we call sourcing. The media needs sources of news. The big media want sources that will supply them with news on a daily basis that's credible, reliable and doesn't cost too much. Where do you get that kind of news? You get it at the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, or you get it at the local city mayor's office, the police department, or the General Motors Corporation. These are the prime decision makers who make news.

There's a strong tendency for the media, especially the big media, to get close to sources that are powerful, who can give them news that's believable and news that doesn't cost a lot to get. So a lot of the news outlets have people stationed permanently at the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, and so on. When they do this, they develop a certain relationship with these institutions. They become friendly with the people who provide them with the news, who are nice to them, and in doing that, they may occasionally get inside information, and so a symbiotic relationship develops between these big sources and the media.

These big sources with this symbiotic relationship don't want dissidence-people that will criticize them severely. So the media are a little reluctant to go out and spend a lot of money to find dissenters who will call the White House, or the President, or high officials liars, even when they lie. This is a very fundamental thing that practically every media analyst understands-that there becomes a dependence on these dominant sources by the media and a symbiotic relationship develops that affects what kind of news they will cover. It's also cheap and easy to take their statement. Nobody's going to question it except people who are powerless. This filter largely determines what is news, and it makes it difficult for the media to even look for other news, which is problematic and expensive to get.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Propaganda/Propaganda_Free_Press.html

Very educational. Many thanks.

And yet the Bush War Criminals walk and work freely.

Can't we ruin their "careers"?

I have no doubt the other major networks have done the same thing.

Faux Snooze is in a different category. They lie and are proud of it. When caught, they just hunker down and spew it out faster and in larger quantities.

while keeping Joe S on, they have completely lost my respect for them being a informative news channel.

his lies were completely forgotten about.

And a sociopathic predator. Just keep on lying you lying liar.

and no one cares a wit about the lies he spreads.

Even caught red handed he keeps on lying. Amazing.

Now I get to see Bill O's mug on DU for the next 2 weeks.

Bush's lies caused countless lives lost, William's lies provided hours of amusement across the internet.

See Lara Logan, Bill O'Reilly, etc.

That is how the PTB get people to vote against their interests. One of the first things to be done if we ever take back our representative government is to bust up the media and banking oligarchies!

meanwhile if Billo brings Brian up again someone throw a custard pie at him

Or is that his "image". He's a serial liar.

don't think they will get caught but they always do.

Typical.