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The Federalist: Brian Williams Gives MSNBC Credibility Boost

Published June 22, 2015

JUNE 22, 2015 By The Federalist Staff

In a discussion with FOX News’ Steve Doocy on Monday, Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway said placing disgraced NBC news anchor at MSNBC was the perfect solution. Brian Williams gets a chance to prove he can be trusted again, MSNBC gets a much-needed credibility boost, and NBC doesn’t completely lose out on a $50-million contract.


I thought for sure he would end up being billary's speech writer.....


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  • pennpenn Posts: 193 ✭✭✭
    A credibility boost by the least credible person in the news.  Must be new math!!!!
  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 15,321 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd agree that Williams lost all credibility, but his lies/embellishments were regarding what he said he experienced while covering the stories.  If he's simply going to report the news without adding his own "insights" I'll give him the benefit of the doubt going forward.  Not that I'll ever see him again, as I don't watch MSNBC.
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • blutattooblutattoo Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭
    Well it seems appropriate since ALL cable news plays fast and loose with the facts. 
  • The3StogiesThe3Stogies Posts: 2,652 ✭✭✭✭
    Maybe they should make him Sharpton's sidekick.
  • jd50aejd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now this should be interesting.


    MSNBC staff chanted ‘F- -k Brian Williams’ at party

    June 22, 2015 | 10:08pm


    Brian Williams’ welcome to MSNBC might be frigid because staffers there haven’t forgotten a scathing report he arrogantly aired on his short-lived “Rock Center” about “corrosive” cable news blowhards at MSNBC, Fox News and CNN.

    The two-part September 2012 report was so unpopular at MSNBC that, at a network holiday party shortly after, some over-served staffers even chanted “F - - k Brian Williams.”

    Williams is now a cable staffer after his demotion from NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor chair. But in 2012, as anchor and managing editor of his own show, “Rock Center,” he aired a two-parter on cable news’ “partisan ranting” from correspondent Ted Koppel. Williams introduced one segment by describing cable as, per Koppel, “corrosive and does nothing to help compromise in this country.”

    Williams stuffily wondered, “Has any of this splashed up against what we do?” Koppel responded: “What works about cable television is it’s cheap and it makes a ton of money. There is nothing cheaper than a bunch of talking heads. The people who hire those talking heads have discovered the more irascible, the more partisan, the nastier they are, the bigger an audience.”

    Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter, Bill Maher and David Carr were interviewed. MSNBC’s anchors declined to participate in the report, although Lawrence O’Donnell was referenced.

    “The rank and file at MSNBC were furious at Brian,” a source told Page Six. “They hated it so much, they were still mad about it months later at the office Christmas party.” That’s where some cheered “F - - k Brian Williams” — “It was like a rallying cry,” our source said.

    An MSNBC source insisted, “The piece was a few years ago. Stirring it up today, it sounds like the chatter of nervous competitors.” Nervous competitors----like who??

    Rachel Maddow said on-air last week she was “really happy” about Williams joining MSNBC and she believes in “second chances.” But, “It is quite possible that I’m causing some schpilkas [extreme nervousness] somewhere in this building because I’m talking about this.”



  • SecretSquirrelSecretSquirrel Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    I wish news networks simply gave news. instead all we get are far left or far right opinions and biases. fox and msnbc are just 2 wings of the same bird.
  • Dark_RoastDark_Roast Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭
    The days of Walter Cronkite just delivering the news as it happens with a take it or leave it style is long gone. Now its all about the attention getting ratings. Give me NBC, CBS, ABC and your local affiliate reporting to you unbiased events of the day on a black and white TV that you had to get up to change the channel and I would be happy. Those were the "good old days."
  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wish news networks simply gave news. instead all we get are far left or far right opinions and biases. fox and msnbc are just 2 wings of the same bird.
    YES!!!!!
    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • jd50aejd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wish news networks simply gave news. instead all we get are far left or far right opinions and biases. fox and msnbc are just 2 wings of the same bird.
    YES!!!!!
    You could not pay me to watch msnbc with all of its fruitcakes and cackle birds.

    But to even begin to get both sides of any story, especially politics, you are forced to watch something like fox and cnn.

    Even the net is drowning in lopsided stories and opinions. And I am sure the people really in charge have enough little worms flooding it with pure trash.
  • The3StogiesThe3Stogies Posts: 2,652 ✭✭✭✭
    I kinda like the variety of "news" channels, not limited to the big 3 that we always used to get and nothing else.  But with that comes the fluff for ratings so some news programs have changed to a news/entertainment type format.  Newsdesks replaced by couches, more discussions/opinions than reporting.  Don't really care what they think may happen just give me the facts.  I generally watch Fox and ABC but depending on what's going on I will watch CSPAN, MSNBC, whatever.  During the riots I watched Sharpton a lot, seeing how he was becoming the news.  Geraldo's a hoot too.  

    The news is out there, it's up to you to find it.
  • SecretSquirrelSecretSquirrel Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    The3Stogies said:
    The news is out there, it's up to you to find it.
    yes, its out there. the problem is if a network is too biased to one side, they simply wont report it. so if you have people that only watch fox for example, they are literally only getting one side of the story, if any at all.
  • SecretSquirrelSecretSquirrel Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    *cough* elections *cough*
  • The3StogiesThe3Stogies Posts: 2,652 ✭✭✭✭
    The3Stogies said:
    The news is out there, it's up to you to find it.
    yes, its out there. the problem is if a network is too biased to one side, they simply wont report it. so if you have people that only watch fox for example, they are literally only getting one side of the story, if any at all.
    Agreed, their interpretation of the facts as they see them, or even the omission of some facts.  I usually read 2 or 3 newspapers a day and you can read about the same event but reported differently.  Same with the cable and network news.  It was really apparent during the riots watching FOX and MSNBC.  The video footage and all was the same but reported/non-reported differently.  Personally I think they both went over the top on that one, where's my Scooby-Van.
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