I'm trying to remember the last decade I watched network news. It's all fluff and agenda anyway. A major waste of a good half hour, and I'm running out of those.

Seriously kids, he's got to be fired. He is, however, a major personality whose career will not be totally sabotaged by his stupid "omission."

 

He will be afforded an opportunity to tender his resignation, then trot off to the world of podcasting and be one of the top-rated in his business. He won't make as much cabbage as he did on the NBC payroll, but he will find that his newfound freedom will lead to a wealth of opportunities that were previously unavailable to him that should more than make up the nut. The length of time between his firing/resignation and when he starts his newest venture will tell you a lot.

 

Mark it down.

I think he has to be fired. I don't understand why it was necessary for him to blow things up like that.

I think he has to be fired. I don't understand why it was necessary for him to blow things up like that.

 

Not gonna lie — I'm confused about the timing.

And so it begins....

 

Brian Williams? Hurricane Katrina coverage now questioned - NY Daily News

 

The flood waters are rising on Brian Williams’ career.

 

The embattled NBC Nightly News anchor’s gripping coverage of Hurricane Katrina is now under review after his credibility took a major hit when Iraq War veterans called him a liar for claiming he survived an RPG attack on his helicopter during the 2003 invasion.

 

Now bloggers are picking apart Williams’ award-winning reporting from New Orleans in 2005, calling into question some of the most compelling narratives he told of one of the worst natural disasters in American history.

 

“When you look out of your hotel room window in the French Quarter and watch a man float by face down, when you see bodies that you last saw in Banda Aceh in Indonesia and swore to yourself that you would never see in your country,” Williams said of his Katrina experience in a 2006 interview with Michael Eisner.

 

I beat that storm. I was there before it arrived. I rode it out with people who later died in the Superdome.”

 

But that particular account and others he provided on the epic storm are now being scrutinized because several news outlets reporting from the French Quarter have noted that the neighborhood, the tourist and cultural heart of New Orleans, was spared the worst and saw little flooding, according to The New Orleans Advocate.

 

So the question is: Did the 55-year-old Williams actually see a body float by from the window of his five-star hotel room in the Quarter, or is this another case of the journalist being swamped by inaccurate or embellished statements?

 

The veteran TV newsman’s most vivid memory of his time in Iraq -- of riding in a helicopter that was attacked from the ground by a rocket-propelled grenade has already been shot down. He made a very public apology during his self-titled newscast Wednesday evening.

 

But Williams' mea culpa has cast a different light on everything he has reported during his long career.

 

Take, for example, his interview with journalism icon Tom Brokaw, whose anchor's chair Williams inherited in December 2004. The two talked Katrina at the Columbia School of Journalism in June and Williams revealed that he suffered a crippling bout of dysentery while reporting from New Orleans.

 

“I accidentally ingested some of the flood water. I became very sick with dysentery,” Williams said. “Our hotel was overrun with gangs. I was rescued in the stairwell of a five-star hotel in New Orleans by a young police officer. We are friends to this day. I look back at total agony. We were experiencing the least of it.”

 

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals told The Advocate that dysentery is not one of the reportable diseases the agency tracks, but it was possible to contract it from contaminated storm-water.

 

“I saw a lot of people with cuts and bruises and such, but I don’t recall a single, solitary case of gastroenteritis during Katrina or in the whole month afterward,” Brobson Lutz, a former New Orleans city health director, told The Advocate.

Interesting.

Oh well at least Valentine's Day is coming up so he can get something for his sweetheart Brian Williams.

Brian Williams has taken a leave of absence.

Brian Williams has taken a leave of absence.

 

To find his memory. Hope it doesn't come under fire. (Pun intended)

Not gonna lie — I'm confused about the timing.

 

Starting from the beginning (around 2003) the soldiers were upset, but what could they do?

 

Less than a week ago Williams brought it up again, but this time the pilot of the helicopter that was actually hit called him out. And with social media, it went viral.

 

This would explain "the timing".

Starting from the beginning (around 2003) the soldiers were upset, but what could they do?

 

Less than a week ago Williams brought it up again, but this time the pilot of the helicopter that was actually hit called him out. And with social media, it went viral.

 

This would explain "the timing".

 

Roger that. Still, seems like this is something that would've been brought up a lot earlier.

Roger that. Still, seems like this is something that would've been brought up a lot earlier.

 

He didnt let a sleeping dog lie.