NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams is being suspended for six months without pay.
Brian Williams, the anchor of NBC's top-rated "Nightly News" program, has been suspended without pay for six months after admitting last week that a story he told about coming under fire on a helicopter during the Iraq war was not true, the network said on Tuesday. "By his actions, Brian has jeopardized the trust millions of Americans place in NBC News," NBC Universal Chief Executive Officer Steve Burke said in a statement from the network. "His actions are inexcusable and this suspension is severe and appropriate." His suspension comes after he voluntarily took himself off the air on Saturday and five days after NBC News launched an inquiry into his story of the event.
This relates to our course curriculum because Brian Williams is apart of the media that reports the news from the White House and other political sources. His lie included a story about the war that was the biggest topic among most politicians and his story may have changed people's views on the war. The media and war aspects of this article relate it to the course curriculum.
I agree with the punishment that was handed down to Brian Williams. Falsifying information is unfair to the general public because news is the one of the only ways we have to look into the actions going on around the world. His crude actions deserved the stiff punsihment that he was eventually given.
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I totally agree with you Lucas. He told a lie, and that lie became a huge lie and it just snowballed down. He has broken the trust of millions of people who admire him while doing the nightly news. Great job.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. That can give off a bad image to the public that the media can just lie to your face and hope that you don't find out. And if NBC hadn't suspended him, then that would make them seem like an unreliable news source.
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