RE: Brian Williams suspended
February 11, 2015 at 12:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2015 at 12:58 pm by Manowar.)
(February 11, 2015 at 11:44 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Did he do it with the intent to mislead or was he honestly misremembering the incident?
If he did it with intent, he should be fired.
If he misremembered (which is understandable given that he's human, he covered news about war-torn areas and could easily conflate his experience with a news item as well as just flat out remember a situation incorrectly, and I'm sure he doesn't go back through his filmed segments and rewatch them on a regular basis) then suspension without pay is reasonable to me.
The crux of the situation, to me, is demonstrating the intent to deceive. Everyone misremembers stuff and if we strung up every news anchor that misremembered something or reported incorrect information there would be no news media.
He said the helicopter he was on was hit by and RPG (rocket propelled grenade. How can anyone misremember that? Apparently his copter landed a half hour later than the copter that was hit. There is no defense for that statement, it's a lie plain and simple. Maybe he thought he could get away with it considering it happened about 03.
