Rachel Maddow Sweetly Calls Bullsh*t On NBC Over Brian Williams Coverage
Although Williams made his apology on NBC’s air, it would be several days before cable news sister network MSNBC would cover the story and, when it did, viewers were treated to surreal touches like this:
“According to Variety, a person familiar with the story said that NBC News executives had counseled Williams to stop telling the story in public. This is disputed by someone familiar with current NBC News operations.”
This is double-plus-absurd, because for starters, the sourcing and attribution in the Variety article wouldn’t make it past the editor of the James O’Keefe Memorial High School Gazzette (emphasis mine):
What makes Williams’ admission worse, according to one person familiar with the situation, is that he had been counseled in the past by senior NBC News executives to stop telling the story in public. The advice, this person said, was not heeded. One person familiar with current NBC News operations disputed that information.
Those attributions are so weak, they could both literally be used to describe me. Much more glaringly, though, why is Mika Brzezinski reporting on what an anonymous rando says NBC News executives said, instead of asking, oh, I don’t know, an NBC News executive? Or anyone at all connected to the news outlet that she works for? This is akin to Josh Earnest reading out anonymous White House leaks to reporters in a press briefing. It’s absurd and disgraceful.
Since then, MSNBC has covered the story in much the same manner, generating news content and commentary from the same limited set of facts and statements as everyone else. On Tuesday night’s The Rachel Maddow Show, someone finally called them out, and it was Rachel Maddow…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Foundryman February 11th, 2015 at 17:08
These Daily Banter articles where they want to charge you 60 bucks to read the rest of the story are really kind of ridiculous.
I already pay for internet content, I won’t pay individual sites even more. They will just have to figure some other way to make money or find someone else to fork over some bucks. I hear the Koch Bros. have some extra pocket change.
Foundryman February 11th, 2015 at 18:08
These Daily Banter articles where they want to charge you 60 bucks to read the rest of the story are really kind of ridiculous.
I already pay for internet content, I won’t pay individual sites even more. They will just have to figure some other way to make money or find someone else to fork over some bucks. I hear the Koch Bros. have some extra pocket change.
fahvel February 12th, 2015 at 00:40
this guy is a reporter like romney is an intellectual politician. Dudley doo rights with the chin and the bravado and not a dollop of integrity. F’em.
fahvel February 12th, 2015 at 01:40
this guy is a reporter like romney is an intellectual politician. Dudley doo rights with the chin and the bravado and not a dollop of integrity. F’em.