{"id":59521,"date":"2015-04-26T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59521"},"modified":"2015-04-26T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T15:10:20","slug":"nbc-at-least-10-brian-william-embellishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59521","title":{"rendered":"NBC: At least 10 Brian William embellishments"},"content":{"rendered":"

While NBC fans are calling for the return of Brian Williams to the network, CNNMoney<\/a> says that the network has found “at least 10” incidents of Williams embellishing his news stories;<\/p>\n

But The New York Times and The Washington Post reported new details on Friday night that painted Williams in a decidedly negative light.<\/p>\n

The Times reported that Esposito’s team has uncovered “discrepancies” in Williams’ accounts of his reporting from Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt in 2011.<\/p>\n

The Times said it was one of a “half-dozen instances” that have raised eyebrows internally.<\/p>\n

The Post reported that the investigation has “turned up 11 instances in which the anchorman publicly embellished details of his reporting exploits.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The investigators, led by NBC News senior executive producer Richard Esposito, have also raised doubts about Williams\u2019 comments about his experiences covering Israel\u2019s military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006. In an interview with a student-run television station at Fairfield University in Connecticut in 2007, Williams said he saw rockets passing \u201cjust beneath\u201d the Israel helicopter in which he was traveling. But Williams gave a less harrowing account of the same trip in an NBC News blog a year earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

In an appearance [in February 2011] with Jon Stewart on \u201cThe Daily Show,\u201d Mr. Williams described his reporting from the square. Speaking of clashes between protesters seeking the overthrow of the Egyptian government, and a pro-government group on horses and camels, he said he had \u201cactually made eye contact with the man on the lead horse.\u201d Mr. Stewart then referred to reports that the pro-government group had used whips. \u201cYeah,\u201d Mr. Williams replied, \u201che went around the corner after I saw him, they pulled out whips and started beating human beings on the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NBC News report on the clash between the protesters that day did not show Mr. Williams in Tahrir Square during the protest. Subsequent reports said that Mr. Williams was reporting \u201cfrom a balcony overlooking Tahrir Square,\u201d rather than from inside the square itself, a description that matches footage that was broadcast, and that he repeated in an interview with The New York Times last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, it all comes from that nasty habit that journalists have lately of inserting themselves into the news rather than just reporting the facts. The Post and the Times, of the old print media, seem to be enjoying this scandal that doesn’t involve their own employees a little too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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