Posted on 02/05/2015 12:01:05 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Brian Williams began his recent lecture in NYUs ournalism department on a harsh note.
It doesnt matter what you look like, it doesnt matter who you know. If you cant write that lead, then get out, Williams said.
But Williams, who visited NYU on April 4, 2007, quickly softened the blow of this severe pronouncement he admitted to students that his own broadcasting career had gotten off to a difficult start in Pittsburg, Kansas. I was making $174 a week, and I bombed out after 13 months because I sucked, Williams said.
He left Kansas for Washington, D.C., where he worked as a White House intern before snagging a job behind the scenes at a TV station. His boss there liked him and helped him improve his broadcasting skills. Youve got to be a hustler, Williams said. Anything worth wanting is worth fighting for.
For the aspiring broadcasters in his NYU audience, Williams had some special advice. He encouraged them to maintain their own voices, rather than trying to sound the way they think a broadcaster should sound.
Picture a focus group of people, living or dead, who you have loved in your life, and talk to them, Williams suggested. And if you can do that, youll find youre being yourself. People have a great BS meter; its built in. Theyll know when theyre being taken for a ride.
After years of experience in the news business, Williams said he has developed his own strong BS meter he can watch the local news in any city in this country and tell you which anchors went out to dinner that night instead of staying and writing between the 6 oclock and 11 oclock news. Williams also said he can tell which anchors write their own copy and whos just reading whatever pops up on the teleprompter. On The Nightly News, Williams reviews every word of the copy before it goes on the teleprompter. Any time Ive kicked a word, its because Ive never seen it before, Williams said.
Brian Williams. Photo: Laurel Angrist
The Nightly News attracts between 10 and 11 million viewers each night. But the playing field for prime-time nightly news is in constant motion, with NBC, CBS, and ABC jockeying for the top slot in the ratings game. The tremendous growth of online media especially blogs in recent years has altered the face of journalism.
Youre going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe, said Williams. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now Im up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasnt left the efficiency apartment in two years.
He added that its often difficult to judge the credibility of a blogger. On the Internet, no one knows if youve been to Ramadi or youve just been to Brooklyn and have an opinion about Ramadi, said Williams.
Williams is certainly not anti-blog in fact, he has his own blog, The Daily Nightly, which he updates every day. But he does worry that the explosion of opinion-driven amateur media might distract the public from big stories or important writers work.
If were all watching cats flushing toilets, what arent we reading? What great writer are we missing? What great story are we ignoring? This is societal, its cultural, I cant change it. Like everybody else, I can burn an hour on YouTube or Perez Hilton without breaking a sweat. And what have I just not paid attention to that 10 years ago I wouldve just consumed?
But these days, Williams acknowledged, if a journalist doesnt embrace new media, he or she wont be around for long. Williams cited the example of a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer who was fired recently because he refused to start a blog.
It seems to me that if Im in print and everything around me says updated seven minutes ago, Im going to want to also have been updated seven minutes ago, if not six, said Williams. He or she who doesn't adapt dies.
Enter Brian Williams, anchor of NBC's stellar primetime lineup of news shows for old people who don't understand the Internet, who has, since 2003, been telling a story about how his helicopter came under RPG fire in Iraq and was forced to land. Turns out, while there were a few helicopters in the area that had been forced to land after coming under enemy fire, Williams's helicopter landed at least an hour later under near-perfect conditions. Which he, he told viewers of NBC News in a strange non-apology, only found out about on Friday.........."
Whatta ‘tard....
It doesnt matter what you look like, it doesnt matter who you know. Hell, it doesn’t even matter if you tell the truth or not. What matters is that you stay true to liberal ideals.”
Fixed it.
NBC must fire Brian Williams...it is as simple as that. If williams is not cannd quickly th NBC nightly news viewers will drop like a big rock thrown into water!!!
He added that its often difficult to judge the credibility of a blogger. On the Internet, no one knows if youve been to Ramadi or youve just been to Brooklyn and have an opinion about Ramadi, said Williams.
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Or you could just be Brian Williams, sitting there on TV and lying to your face ....
Schrodinger had it right.....
NBC is 95% propaganda these days anyway. Their viewers lap it up.
You mean the same NBC that selectively played passages of George Zimmerman's comments with the intent of inciting racial tensions? The same NBC that reported the dangers of a particular car (can't remember the make) by igniting it? The same NBC that constantly and purposely pushes misinformation, propaganda, lies, and covers for the Demonic Party? I wouldn't hold your breath...
I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something
Something I can use
People love it when you lose
They love dirty laundry
Well, I coulda been an actor
But I wound up here
I just have to look good
I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em all around
We got the bubble headed
Bleached blonde
Comes on at five
She can tell you ‘bout the plane crash
With a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation
Is the head dead yet
You know the boys in the newsroom
Got a running bet
Get the widow on the set
We need dirty laundry
[Instrumental Interlude]
You don’t really need to find out
What’s going on
You don’t really want to know
Just how far it’s gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re stiff
Kick ‘em all around
(Kick ‘em when they’re up)
(Kick ‘em when they’re down)
(Kick ‘em when they’re up)
(Kick ‘em when they’re down)
(Kick ‘em when they’re up)
(Kick ‘em when they’re down)
(Kick ‘em when they’re stiff)
(Kick ‘em all around)
Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers
In everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
We can do the Innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done
We haven’t told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry
Brian “Rambo” Williams.
His next story will probably be telling us about his Navy SEAL days or the 40 lb. bass he caught.
Link is radio show with Brian Williams telling ‘the lie; to Letterman... AND Hillary telling hers about being fired at...
Link is radio show with Brian Williams telling ‘the lie; to Letterman... AND Hillary telling hers about being fired at...
In his ‘apology’ Brian Williams lies again...
He doesn’t have a BS meter, he has cynicism towards anyone who is not a fellow traveler on the left. Thus he researches to ask tougher questions to those he disagrees with. Other than that he is a slobbering lapdog for any leftist he interviews.
“He left Kansas for Washington, D.C., where he worked as a White House intern”
The jimmy carter administration. That sums up Bee Ess Williams, more than I need to know about him.
Williams was just following company policy.
What, when you open the box (helicopter door) and the cat (news anchor) is alive?
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