Discussion for article #233016
How about news people sticking to the news? Even in the early days when TV was really a new big deal, you would never see the news people like Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley, Edward R Murrow on TV doing an entertainment “schtick”. For as far as we have come, we don’t need people we take seriously to deliver important news, playing the clown on late night TV. Now, if these guys want to tell us that they are merely “news readers”, maybe we can make an exception. The other thing to ask yourself is whether you think the major networks would risk their multi-million dollar a year news properties actually in harm’s way in a war zone? The prima donas are well protected regardless of where they go.
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The golden boy is not a news person, he’s a personality with a brand (hate that term.) To promote that brand he’s gone on 30 Rock, Slow Jam the News with Jimmy Fallon, he’ll promote his daughter’s TV appearance on his so-called news show, and so why would anyone pay attention to whatever he says in the evening. By then we already know what’s happened during the day.
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Was he going to sing this time or do his Jay Leno impression?
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You mean Geraldo is lowering himself by appearing on Trump’s show?
Whether one wants to defend or skewer Brian Williams is a waste of time.
What does anyone want to do about infotainment by news readers and deliberate misinformation or outright lies as news?
Gosh, I’m just waiting for Dave to chat with Luke Russert…
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Oddly enough, Luke Russert’s mom is a serious journalist, Maureen Orth. She does a lot of investigative type pieces for Vanity Fair
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Its a shame her son takes after his father.
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Let’s look on the bright side of this – at least someone is finally getting punished for lying about the Iraq War.
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OMG, OMG, this, Just In: Brian Williams just picked his nose and is about ready to take a dump.
Retweet, Retweet. Please Retweet.
Exactly. And may I add that, to me, he is a prime example of Hollyweird’s obsession with fluffy pretty things epitomizing the Peter Principle. I have always found his ridiculous concern eyebrows so insincere and revolting.
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He already took a dump on all of us --several big steaming dumps.
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I have yet to see any anchor on the nightly network news that isn’t preening and pimping for the cameras in much the same way as Williams. Not in this day and age. They’re all like that now. And on cable its worse. Babbling blonds with intentionally low cut tops, and plenty of pretty boys with tons of makeup, blow-dried hair, intended to warm the cockles of your heart as the all American clean-shaven boy next-door. Then you have the Baba Wawa and the Leslie Stall types that go for the face-lift and the dye jobs to keep their looks on camera as they age so no one will see them as has-beens. And barely anyone on center stage anchoring weighs more than a string bean. Walter Cronkite couldn’t make it in today’s media circus if he tried. He wasn’t the photogenic type that they now demand be on camera, or on center stage. In fact, the actual news comes in a mere second to the telegenic charm offensive they all try to sell the public on first and foremost. That’s an absolute requisite in the news business today.
Eh, I’m tired. And tired of this Williams Saga. Its not a big deal to me. I just can’t get worked up about it like some people.
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Besides the position of the Helo, the type of weapon used on him and the near death experience, what did Williams really lie about?
I mean, he got the century right and which war he was flying over and some of his military terminology was hip, like how he called the helicopter a bird.
The fog of misremembrance has clouded the grainy recollections of a selectively sharp and yet imaginative man. Big deal, people at Faux lie all the time, Brian Williams slinging a little BS serially over the years is not as bad as Faux doing it per segment of every show.
Brian Williams, a better liar than Faux. So he has that going for him.
Aw, darn, but is he still going to host SNL one of these days?
A little bit OT but it’s about faux journalists who can put on concerned faces. There’s somebody named David Muir who is the ABC nightly news anchor, and in an interview with Fusion
Muir acted out the facial expressions he uses during his broadcast: “the listening face,” the “really listening” face, and the “really concerned” face.
Do you remember the film Broadcast News where a vapid TV journo played by william Hurt worked up a tear because the interviews was about date rape? Russert has the film and has watched it for guidance on how to do reporting.
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Yes, I do remember the film. I get the connection. Diane Sawyer is adept at the concern brow as well.
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