Posted on 02/06/2015 9:24:14 PM PST by South40
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News has assigned the head of its own investigative unit to look into statements that anchor Brian Williams made about his reporting in Iraq a dozen years ago, an episode that's ballooned into a full-blown credibility crisis for the network.
NBC News President Deborah Turness announced the probe in an internal memo on Friday. Williams has apologized for falsely saying on the air that he was in a helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade while in Iraq in 2003, and Turness said Friday the anchor expressed his regrets to his colleagues for the impact the episode has had.
"As you would expect, we have a team dedicated to gathering the facts to help us make sense of all that has transpired," Turness wrote. "We're working on what the best next steps are."
Richard Esposito, who has worked at the New York Daily News, New York Newsday and ABC and is now at NBC, is leading the investigation.
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“After a thorough and complete investigation, we have determined that the behavior of Mr. Williams reflects the values and ethics of NBC News. We are proud to have Mr. Williams as our anchor and executive editor.”
Brian Williams - call your lawyer and review your severance clause.
Being probed by NBC has a very nasty sound to it..
Brian Williams was photographing Pluto from the probe from the last report he gave.
Also known as The Committee to Find Out How to Save Our Butts and Brian Williams’ Butt.
Sharpton is ready to take his spot and restore credibility to NBC!
Lyin’ Brian is toast, and NBC knows it. At this point, the bulk of the effort NBC puts into this, will be in trying to figure the most graceful way out of their relationship with him.
Tom Blowchow: “Old Mushmouth”.
They’re all real quick to throw him under, now piling on with the New Orleans stories... Who’d he tick off?
he said his plane took rpg fire, the pentagon said it didnt.
i just did their job for them.
He’ll go on the Tonight Show next. Thanks South40.
The Fallon-ization of Dunham and Williams
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“At this point, the bulk of the effort NBC puts into this, will be in trying to figure the most graceful way out of their relationship with him.”
I tend to agree. The Tonight Show appearance is probably there to give him a last-ditch effort to save his bacon, but the network has to know the guy’s credibility is most likely shot with their viewers.
Precisely.
“gathering facts ... help us make sense”
Like the NYT, “All the news that’s fit to print.”
NBC, “We’re working on what the next best steps are.”
Everyone knows exactly what “transpired”. This is standard demo-damage control.
And if a conservative had screwed-the-pooch here as badly as Lyin’ Brian, the MSM would be demanding: resignation, prison, lethal injection ...
Oh, they know alright. They're the Twitternet generation, and are following all of the outrage, indignation, and ridicule exploding across cyberspace.
The top brass at GE/NBC must be in round-the-clock strategy meetings as we speak. This guy was the very face of their entire enterprise, and now the whole world has his number as a pathetic liar who stole the valor of real heroes.
I guarantee you, this boondoggle is already with the lawyers, who are working out how to separate Brian from the company, while protecting their corporate interests.
Worst of all for them, is their reputation as a news organization is now in the toilet with many libs. I mean, lots of people at NBC knew for over a decade that this guy was lying about this story, but no one at the top did a thing to stop him. Now they will pay.
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