gotta love a good RAT fight... 8^)
Posted on 02/06/2015 4:10:54 AM PST by abb
gotta love a good RAT fight... 8^)
RATS is as RATS does
I never trusted Brian Williams. Ever.
When Brokaw retired, NBC was #1 in the evening news ratings, and Williams has been able to maintain that position, though ABC did occasionally eclipse him. The difference between first and third place in the network news wars is measured in millions of dollars a year, even in an era when most Americans get their news on-line and the combined audiences for the evening newscasts of ABC, NBC and CBS is a fraction of what it once was.
Having Williams in the top spot was also a boon to local NBC affiliates, providing a better lead-in for their newscasts, and contributing more to their bottom line.
So, having a congenital liar in the anchor chair was good business for NBC, and they will probably retain Williams, as long as the ratings don't slip. The greatest sin in broadcasting isn't telling a lie (and repeating it over and over again); it's failing to attract enough eyeballs.
If anyone bothered to look in the closets of the various network anchors, they'd find enough skeletons to fill a cemetary—and. The late Peter Jennings was a serial philanderer who was married four times. In one of the great ironies of the gossip business, a number of columnists expressed sympathy for him when wife #3 (Kati Marton) began having an affair that broke up their marriage.
Dan Rather reportedly had a girlfriend for years, and so did Ted Koppel. Both were pikers compared to Matt Lauer whose unfaithfulness destroyed his first marriage and his second wife file divorce papers against him back in 2006 (accusing him of metal cruelty, among other things) before reuniting. And more recently, we've been privy to some of the texts sent from 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft to his much-young mistress.
Of this sleazy group, the only one fired (to date) is Dan Rather and obviously, his dismissal from CBS had nothing to do with any extra-curricular activities. In fact, his role in the fictional 60 Minutes report on George W. Bush's ANG service was just a convenient excuse. His real crime, as far as CBS was concerned, was anchoring a newscast that had been in last place for more than a decade before the "fake, but accurate" debacle. Network anchors get a lot of passes from their friends in the media, and they take full advantage of that latitude. Almost impossible to find a decent, honorable human being in the bunch.
Hmmm....sounds like “What did they know and when did they know it?”.
A top news guy travels with tech and other people. No doubt staffers objected when BW started telling it, but had to keep it inside the division/company to avoid being vulnerable to retaliation.
It’s entertainment, not news, so lying doesn’t really matter until the PR gets too bad.
News media is to news as science fiction is to science.
interesting...
I cannot STAND the banal sanctimoniousness of Brokaw’s “An American Life” series played on the local talk station. If he isn’t fired, I may hope to be shot myself.
God save the Republic.
He should have been fired yesterday.
I’d rather he stay, then at least the world will know their news is a bunch of crap.
Didn’t he also change his name somewhere along the line?
What a crap load.
One liar - Broke-Jaw, wants another liar Williams fired. LOL!
And another liar says that Williams is eligible for sainthood by the lib media.
Dan Rather: Brian Williams Is ‘An Honest And Decent Man’
By Jeffrey Meyer | February 5, 2015 | 3:21 PM EST
It appears as though NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has gained the support of at least one journalist following his admission that he lied about being in a helicopter that was hit with enemy fire while reporting from Iraq in 2003.
Speaking to Politico’s Dylan Byers, disgraced former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather insisted that Brian Williams was “an honest and decent man, an excellent reporter and anchor—and a brave one. I can attest that.”
One has to question whether or not Dan Rather is the best person to comment on someone else’s honesty given that in 2001 he told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly “you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.” Rather also insisted that despite Clinton lying under oath about his extramarital affair “I think at core he’s an honest person.”
H/T: Mediaite
KeyLargo, Montego...
heheheh...
and I was going to post a comment about Brian Wilson already being retired - especially after all the bucks they made on that Cocomo song.
there was a time when all their heads would roll...but our countrymen don't demand truth anymore.
^
This
Pot, meet Kettle!
WMAL’s Chris Plante Suggests New Theme Song for Nightly News with Brian Williams
By Ken Shepherd | February 5, 2015 | 8:26 PM EST
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