Posted on 03/09/2015 6:52:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
But, but, but he would have lost ACCESS to Obama if he had actually reported the truthful but damaging stories about this Admin. Don’t you know that ACCESS is far more important than the TRUTH??
What sleep schedule? Williams never anchored the morning show, and staffers at NBC report he never showed up for work until early afternoon (about 4 hours before his 6:30 pm ET newscast) and he’s out the door as soon as it’s over. All that “work” for $8 million a year. Brian Williams is hardly overworked.
However, the anchor who held the record for the shortest workday (as far as I know) was the late Floyd Kalber, who spent the last 14 years of his career at WLS-TV in Chicago. Mr. Kalber was one of the legendary anchors in that town and he was hired by ABC to do one show: the 6 pm newscast. He usually arrived at the studios around 5, did the show an hour later, and was on his way home by 7.
Of course, Floyd Kalber had long since paid his dues, and there was no questioning his popularity. Within a year of joining WLS, the 6 pm newscast was #1 in the ratings and he was still on top, by a comfortable margin, when he retired in 1998.
As far as I know, Mr. Kalber never “slow-jammed” the news or traded quips with a late night comedian. He was a professional who helped invent local TV news in Omaha and Chicago. Just before he left Omaha for the Windy City, he hired a recent college grad named Tom Brokaw as his replacement. Barely 15 years later, Kalber was the newsreader on Today, anchored by Brokaw.
Every single one of the reporters and workers in the news media kill stories that hurt Obama and they make the news stories that advance socialism
I'm a retired truck driver .... haven't worked it for three years ...I'd LOVE to get a natural 7 or 8 hours
I can do it with melatonin and a few other otc's, but they all 'drug' me and I feel 'hung over' when I get up
Another late breaking bombshell, the sun rose in the east today!!!!!
Among the more interesting factoids about Williams: He attended three colleges, yet accumulated only 18 hours of credit. It takes real effort to achieve an academic record that bad; either BriWi is a very dim bulb (quite possible), or he spent his college days partying, or both.
Without a college degree, he landed his first TV job in Pittsburg, Kansas and was fired less than a year later. But somehow, his next position was as a White House intern under Jimmy Carter. Very few “blue collar” families can get their ‘ner-do-well son onto the White House staff.
From there, the TV news failure lands a job with WTTG in Washington, the leading independent station in that market. Then, he convinces the female news director to tutor him as an on-air talent and within five years, the guy who got canned in market #149 is anchoring Panorama, WTTG’s flagship news/talk program.
As my FReeper handle indicates, I spent some time in the broadcast news business before gravitating to the military and launching a real career. The odds of seguing from a failed TV news gig to the White House are incredibly long, and persuading a news director in a Top 10 market to tutor you are decidedly slim as well. By the time you reach a market at that level, you’re expect to be a polished performer. Even in the early 80s, most news directors would laugh at a request to train one of their production techs to become an anchor.
Twelve years after joining WTTG, he was at NBC News and being groomed as Brokaw’s successor. Saying he has led a charmed life (until now) would be an understatement, and it’s not the kind of meteoric rise that most blue-collar kids can make, especially when your credentials are as skimpy as those of Brian Williams. Make no mistake: lots of kids have risen from humble circumstances to the top of their profession, but the vast majority worked a lot harder than Brian Williams.
You and i understand that but the low info voters and democrats trust and believe that the news is news and the truth.
Main Stream Media - MSM - MANY SATAN’S MINIONS !
I dare Megyn Kelly to say it on her show, tell it like it is, the truth Megyn !
surprise surprise surprise
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