NBC's Brian Williams Under Attack

[Drew Phipps]

Looks like Bill O'Reilly is gonna get a taste of this medicine too.

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/24/cb...d%3D618025

CBS News releases video referenced in O'Reilly dispute
DAVID BAUDER Feb 24th 2015 2:35AM

NEW YORK (AP) - CBS News on Monday released video from four stories it aired about the Falklands War in 1982, all part of a dispute involving Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly and his subsequent statements about covering the war.None of the stories mentions O'Reilly, then a young CBS reporter, or makes any specific reference to a CBS crew member being hurt. The television time travel was prompted by a Mother Jones article last week calling into question O'Reilly's claims he reported in a "war zone" or "combat zone" during the brief conflict between Britain and Argentina. Few reporters made it to the front of the war, some 1,000 miles from the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.

O'Reilly has said that he covered an anti-government demonstration in Buenos Aires that turned violent and that a photographer he was working with was knocked to the ground and was bleeding. Describing the events two years ago, O'Reilly said he "dragged off" the photographer from danger. Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg, who also was covering the event, characterized O'Reilly's account as "dishonest" and "completely nutty" during a Huffington Post interview on Monday. Engberg said none of the camera operators working the night in question remembers any colleague being injured. The camera person who was said to be hurt has not spoken publicly about the matter.

During one of the CBS reports, then-anchor Dan Rather said that several television crew members were knocked to the ground and that North American television crews were "jostled." An Engberg report, also released by CBS on Monday, said police fired guns with tear gas and plastic bullets. He said in the report it was unknown how many people were hurt but at least some were seriously injured.

An Associated Press account of the demonstration said that police officers charged a group of about 50 journalists, beating some and trampling others. "Two news photographers were reported injured by rubber bullets fired by police," said the June 16, 1982, account by AP writer Douglas Grant Mine. The release of the videos, while providing more detail about the situation O'Reilly faced 33 years ago, did not resolve the issue of whether his retellings of the experience have been completely factual. In addition to his work at Fox, o'Reilly has become a force in the publishing industry with a series of books on the deaths of historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ.

O'Reilly, on his program Monday night, showed portions of the CBS video and said it proved the event was no "walk in the park." He interviewed Don Browne, a former NBC News Miami bureau chief who supervised the network's Falklands coverage, who also described the situation. No mention was made in O'Reilly's report Monday about any CBS News personnel being hurt.

The Mother Jones piece was printed shortly after NBC News anchor Brian Williams was suspended for misrepresenting his experiences in the Iraq War. O'Reilly, long the most popular prime-time figure in cable news, has called the piece a political hit job. "I want to stop this now," O'Reilly said. "I hope we can stop it, I really do."

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has said he fully supports O'Reilly.

[Albert Doyle]

Last night CNN had ABC's Bob Woodruff on a panel discussing the Sniper movie. The context was clearly that he was a good journalist who told the truth and was seriously wounded in Iraq by a roadside bomb. Woodruff was a colleague of Peter Jennings by the way.

They're milking the sniper movie as much as they can.

[Albert Doyle]

An NBC "probe" has found 10 instances where Brian Williams exaggerated.


Where is the probe into NBC's behavior in the Jim Garrison case against Clay Shaw where they sent CIA agent Walter Sheridan in against Garrison? Where is the probe into their behavior concerning Bush's WMD's and war crimes? TWA 800?


Does NBC only take on the little defenseless guys but not the big time violators?


What about O'Reilly? Is O'Reilly not mentioned because he is too closely connected to the mainstream media's cover-up of the Kennedy assassination?

[Lauren Johnson]

What about O'Reilly? Is O'Reilly not mentioned because he is too closely connected to the mainstream media's cover-up of the Kennedy assassination?

O'Reilly? Pahleeese. He works for FOX news and could never be investigation. Lying is his job.

[Albert Doyle]

NBC are the liars here. This is not about accuracy in media. The notion that the US media follows a strict code of accuracy or worries about what the public thinks is a joke. What this is about is Swiftboat-like fascist control of media politics where examples will be made in order to teach journalists what they should fear and who is in charge. This about the money club and how examples will be made if anyone makes even the slightest mistake against the warrior club who will demand strict accuracy at the threat of tribunal while the country burns in the background in a conflagration of fascist corruption and contempt. This is how all fascists do it. They gain power through punishment. America is a country where war crime lies are no problem but a helicopter claim is a rogue violation.

CNN had Washington Posts's Paul Farhi on discussing Williams being forced out of NBC. Of course this was all done without skipping a beat or realizing the incestuous Ben Bradlee CIA background of the Post or what a joke is it to have that cesspool of CIA corruption judging Brian Williams.


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