Honesty in broadcasting

~ susie ~ 3 Comments

Brian Williams takes himself off NBC newscast

From what I read, Tom motherfucking Brokaw, the flag pin-wearing war cheerleader for our Iraq invasion under false pretenses, was the main person egging on NBC management to can Brian Williams. Oh, if only we had real honesty in broadcasting! Still waiting for that special on the TPP:

Sources tell FTVLive that NBC News President Deborah Turness is strongly considering having Brian Williams step down, maybe as early as next week.

[…] Sources say that Turness has not yet decided what to do with Williams but is “leaning in the direction” of having him step down.

Sources tell FTVLive that Turness has short list of replacements for Williams and the names could raise a few eyebrows.

They are – Lester Holt, Jose Diaz Balart, and Peter Alexander.

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~ susie

By e. e. cummings
“next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?”
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water

(h/t Alan Gilbert.)