Maureen Dowd: Anchors Aweigh (Brian Williams)

The New York Times ^ | February 7, 2015 | Maureen Dowd

[EveningStar]

THIS was a bomb that had been ticking for a while.

NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it was a joke in the news division.

But the caustic media big shots who once roamed the land were gone, and “there was no one around to pull his chain when he got too over-the-top,” as one NBC News reporter put it.

[onyx]

ROTFLOL.
Why of course, you’re right!!!

[BraveMan]

Frothy morning shows long ago became the more important anchoring real estate, garnering more revenue and subsidizing the news division. One anchor exerted moral authority once and that was Walter Cronkite, because he risked his career to go on TV and tell the truth about the fact that we were losing the Vietnam War.

This cannot be allowed to stand. We weren't losing the war until Uncle Walt took the Tet Offensive for a 'spin'.

[RedMDer]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[gaijin]

Nobody is even mentioning how Dan Rather once claimed he was a US Marine.

I don’t get it.

[onyx]

YES, LOLOLOL.

[RedMDer]

The New York Times!

[ConservativeStatement]

[central_va]

[onyx]

LOL.
Indeed.
Mo-Do

[VerySadAmerican]

At one time there were actually journalists working on tv. Then they became celebrities. Walter Frogbite among them.

[RedMDer]

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[ConorMacNessa]

I know why! He had a liaison with John F'in Kerry!

Seared, I say, seared in his memory!

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

[Snickering Hound]

[lbryce]

Oh my God! This celebrated, cosetted, privileged, keyboard pusher is shamefully ignorant of the proper use of the English language. In the fourth paragraph, she writes When Williams was declared the [sic] hair apparent to Tom Brokaw....

Hair Apparent??HAIR APPARENT??

It's heir apparent you dumb horse's rear end.

But of course she relies on her computer's spell checker to catch any such mistakes, notorious for failing to catch spellings in which a homonym throws in a monkey's wrench into her reputation as that of no being an ignoramus.

[EveningStar]

That was intentional.

[EveningStar]

I agree with you. The worship of Uncle Walter Cronkite is pathological.

[lbryce]

How’s that? What does she attain by spelling it as Hair Apparent?

[Deagle]

Let me guess... You and most other Media folks already knew about this problem but decided to stay quiet...right?

So, does that make all of you complacent in this deception?

I say YES!

[Henry Hnyellar]

Yea, requisite #1 for a news anchor - good hair.

[EveningStar]

See post #39.