Should Brian Williams resign?

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Should NBC anchorman Brian Williams step down? What do you think?
 
There seem to be 4 or 5 questionable incidents now: the helicopter, rockets over Israel, puppy rescue, being robbed while selling Christmas trees among them. Apparently his management knew about the yarn spinning and “stolen valor” problem some time ago, but no one messes with the 5 Million Dollar guy with the good hair. Don’t see how he can recover, or how NBC can report news with any credibility while he’s still there. Far more than a one-time “fish story.”
 
Voted no because either he should be considered a person who made a mistake and be given the chance to learn from it, or he should be considered a person who made professional errors that were beyond the acceptable limit for his profession and should be fired.

I don’t believe in graceful resignations.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
There seem to be 4 or 5 questionable incidents now: the helicopter, rockets over Israel, puppy rescue, being robbed while selling Christmas trees among them. Apparently his management knew about the yarn spinning and “stolen valor” problem some time ago, but no one messes with the 5 Million Dollar guy with the good hair. Don’t see how he can recover, or how NBC can report news with any credibility while he’s still there. Far more than a one-time “fish story.”
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If anyone happened to see the disaster that was NBC’S Peter Pan Live – the title character was played by Brian Williams’ daughter. I wonder how much influence he had in the casting.
 
CradleJourney said:
Voted no because either he should be considered a person who made a mistake and be given the chance to learn from it, or he should be considered a person who made professional errors that were beyond the acceptable limit for his profession and should be fired.

I don’t believe in graceful resignations.
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From other posts in this thread this was apparently not an isolated incident, so it has gone beyond a person making a mistake. I voted that he should resign. He should be given the same chance as Dan Rather.
 
Maxirad said:
Should NBC anchorman Brian Williams step down? What do you think?
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He probably should resign, despite the fact that most people these days don’t trust the (mainstream) media or news reporters anyway and may not even know or care who Brian Williams is, particularly the younger generation.
 
KevinAK said:
If anyone happened to see the disaster that was NBC’S Peter Pan Live – the title character was played by Brian Williams’ daughter. I wonder how much influence he had in the casting.
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Apparently none. No one knew they were related until after she got the role. It’s also not fair to place the sins of the father on the head of the daughter.

I think he has to quit or be fired. For its own sake, NBC has to fire him and not let him resign. Accepting a “graceful” resignation will seriously hurt company morale. If a top dog–one whose credibility and integrity is more valuable to the company than anyone else’s–gets any special treatment, what kind of message does that send to everyone else who works hard to protect those virtues?
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
There seem to be 4 or 5 questionable incidents now: the helicopter, rockets over Israel, puppy rescue, being robbed while selling Christmas trees among them. Apparently his management knew about the yarn spinning and “stolen valor” problem some time ago, but no one messes with the 5 Million Dollar guy with the good hair. Don’t see how he can recover, or how NBC can report news with any credibility while he’s still there. Far more than a one-time “fish story.”
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All of the above coupled with his extreme arrogance on-air.
NBC should fire him.
He’ll be fine. He’ll write a book, they’ll make a movie and he’ll survive. People like that always do.
 
KevinAK said:
If anyone happened to see the disaster that was NBC’S Peter Pan Live – the title character was played by Brian Williams’ daughter. I wonder how much influence he had in the casting.
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Yeah, its always good to pull the kids into the discussion…NOT:shrug:
 
I dont care. Almost never watch network news since ewtn nightly news started.
 
I voted he should resign. For someone in his position to be embellishing stories or simply making them up - it could get worse.
Obviously he seems to think he will get by with it.

I thought Peter Pan live was horrible by the way!
 
I voted no.

Making up stuff is the bedrock of journalism. In my life I’ve been involved in 2 or 3 events that made the press. And at least one business project that made the trade magazines. In no case has what made it to the press matched reality.
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bitznbitez said:
I voted no.

Making up stuff is the bedrock of journalism. In my life I’ve been involved in 2 or 3 events that made the press. And at least one business project that made the trade magazines. In no case has what made it to the press matched reality.
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Unfortunately I have noticed tge same when it comes to news reporting of topics about which I know some thing or people involved. Very sad.
 
My option isn’tt up there: Why is Willams still there? If he hadn’t resigned, he should have been fired. But all ths should have happened as soon as it becam known to management that he had lied. Absurd that a news organization would keep a journalist who lies. But I guess that’s a sign of the times…
 
St_Francis said:
My option isn’tt up there: Why is Willams still there? If he hadn’t resigned, he should have been fired. But all ths should have happened as soon as it becam known to management that he had lied. Absurd that a news organization would keep a journalist who lies. But I guess that’s a sign of the times…
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News organizations are businesses and they most likely felt that Williams is an asset in terms of his style of reporting and physical appearance. The quality and integrity of mainstream news anchors are no longer (if they ever were) the major consideration. We are no longer living in the era of professional journalists such as Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley.
 
meltzerboy said:
News organizations are businesses and they most likely felt that Williams is an asset in terms of his style of reporting and physical appearance. The quality and integrity of mainstream news anchors are no longer (if they ever were) the major consideration. We are no longer living in the era of professional journalists such as Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley.
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Or even Peter Jennings, who was a good reporter. 😦
 
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