http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/10/media/brian-williams-nbc-suspended/index.html?iid=SF_MED_Lead
I understand that in a perfect world "journalists" should not be stretching the truth, but why the big deal now? Why is this happening a dozen years after the fact? Especially since people were calling the story out as BS right when he first started telling the tale all those years ago. I get a sneaking suspicion that there is some kind of new nefarious path that the powers that be who control the media want to tread down or steer everyone towards that perhaps Williams wasn't willing to toe the line on. As in, perhaps the guy may have had a sudden crisis of conscience or something, and this is the little bit of "incentive" they were dangling in front of him for 12 years to make him a team player. Hell, I just assume the news is lying to me. I figured others did as well. So why are they making a stink about it now?
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CeciNestPasUnComplot ago
What gets me is who really gives a shit? I don't hear anybody talking about this in my day-to-day life. I just hear it in the media. As I said before, I just assume the news is stretching the truth to fit a narrative. For it to be laid out so plainly doesn't really make me bat an eye all that much. I wouldn't even be thinking about it if it wasn't being brought up all the time. CNN especially seems to have a hard-on about it. Is this just some kind of phoney facade of outrage they are throwing up so they can be like, "See? We are serious about journalism! We will not tolerate untruths!"
GizaDog ago
They are "detraction bits" to steer senseless minds because when it comes right down to it, the story is non news. Humans lie and get away with its everyday. News at 11