who 'got it wrong' ONE time i.e. his imagination and his memory leap-frogged into a self-serving delusion which he passed off as "news"... ok I get that.

And questions can be raised like "if he got THAT so wrong, what other delusions did he pass off as news? Any? If there were other leaps into delusion that he aired as news, I haven't seen them, and I think that would have surfaced by now.

So I think the guy deserves his job back.. out and out firing him is a huge over-reaction. I hope he sues their asses off.

One too many times.

Or Phil Donohue.

I do see these as different in an important way though: Brian was misremembering an intense "fog of war" moment for him, by embellishing it. Rather and Donahue got fired for publicly speaking out against the Iraq war.

You're right though that them getting fired for that is (in a way) even more egregious.

His helo didn't come under fire, fact is that none of the birds in his flight came under fire that day, they weren't in danger where they set down, they landed among a US armored unit.
Lying Brian deserves to lose his job.
BTW, he also lied about his Katrina experience.

The guy already got a 6 month suspension. That should have been enough for NBC to make their
point, get their pound of flesh ...plus it's given Williams some time to reflect and recalibrate.

I'm going to miss him. (well, I already miss him, since he has been off the air for 4 months already.

Clearly we disagree on this, which is cool with me.

in the news, my vitriol stems from the fact that I've come under hostile ground fire numerous times while driving a bird
and it bugs the crap out of me when someone lies about that kind of thing.

I realize that others have a difference of opinions on this, and that's also cool with me, I just don't like news anchors lying about their experience in a combat zone.

It's kinda' sad, really. For whatever reason, he didn't feel he measured up to the kinds of experiences you went through, so he felt he had to lie or exaggerate it. That wouldn't make me mad, it would make me feel kind of sorry for him.

However, how sorry can you feel for someone who makes something like 10 million a year. Isn't that what his contract is?

I liked him as a news anchor a lot, but I found out over the last few months that I like Lester better. Lester does a really great job, totally professional, and he's not hard to look at, either.



Cher

I hope he takes his horrible daughter with him. I'm not sure why anyone expects actual truth from mainstream news, however.

He embarrassed the bush's way back when

Karl Rove planting that document on his team was easy to do.

the thing is he was in a helicopter a the time and no doubt, it was also a traumatic experience. unlike that other "news" personality on a faux channel who constructed out and out lies.

it is sad. he is a gracious person and i hope mr. williams can put all of this behind him and create something so magnificent with the rest of his life, he is vindicated.

None of the birds in his flight took any ground fire that day, when those birds set down, they were among a US Armored unit for the night, so they were relatively safe.
Sorry, but Lying Brian deserves to lose his job.

allegedly he's telling them he'll sue them if they renege on it.

They can honor the terms of the contract, but typically, these things are written such that they do not need to continue putting him out there as the news anchor, but that instead, they can put him in a correspondent position, or perhaps even as some kind of lower level person - but how humiliating would that be? I can't see him agreeing to do something like that.

If they want him out, they can probably do it relatively cheap.

I don't give a hoot about his stories about his own life.

He's such an amiable, smart guy. I wish him the best.

Far too often, the serious offenders are rewarded instead.

He would be perfect for the John Daly role

ABC News seems to be the last place. Dan Rather is still my go to guy though , too bad he's not in news anymore. NBC has little know how on how to run a news organization anyway.

Good riddance.




Next up propagandist Richard Engel

I've never found him off base with his assessment on the ground. I figure he knows more about some situations than I could know...

You'd realize he's as full of lies as Williams. Williams lied for his own ego, Engel does it to get us to bomb a country.

Comcast. Williams rose to celebrity status because of the dysfunction of the company, and his BS and self-aggrandizement only underscores the idiocy and vacuous nature of network television news.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/nbc-news-brian-williams-scandal-comcast

Looks like some good night time reading! Thanks for posting this link.



Cher

Oh wait...Foxnews claims to be an entertainment channel, so why do they get press seats again?

Possible headline.

I think Holt does a great job.

Fuck Network News. If they had any integrity, they'd make him Chief of News Operations. And I really don't "get" all the folks rooting for Brian because he is a good guy. Total BS. He let a lot of good folks down, pulling that shit. And fuck Page 6!

BROOKLYNITE, why would you ever link to the NYPOST? This ain't my DU.