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I can’t help myself.<\/p>\n

Whenever I see pictures of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams covering the Big Story — in the flak jacket, or the hip waders — I keep thinking of\u00a0terms other than “journalist.”<\/p>\n

I keep thinking of terms like “show horse,” “entertainer,” “grandstander,” “show off.”<\/p>\n

OK, I know it’s likely unfair at this point of the Williams “Chopper-gate” controversy to pass final judgment, but it’s beginning to look strange and weird as I gander at these pictures of Williams on the job, reporting the news to his faithful viewers. (See the link attached.)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/02\/09\/questioning-the-ritz-carlton-gangs-that-brian-williams-said-terrorized-him-during-katrina\/?tid=hp_mm<\/p>\n

The link here, from the Washington Post, talks about another story emanating from Hurricane Katrina. It’s about gangs that reportedly terrorized the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where Williams was billeted during his coverage of the tragic storm.<\/p>\n

This all began, of course, with the helicopter story that Williams now admits to “misremembering.” Others are saying he fabricated<\/em> the story of being shot down in Iraq in 2003. The shoot-down didn’t happen. Williams wrapped his on-air apology in the flag, saying how he\u00a0“bungled” an effort to pay tribute to the brave men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

And the reports of other questionable stories keep coming forward, casting even more doubt on the credibility of a man whose employer, NBC News, had been promoting on air as a man who had earned viewers’ “trust.”<\/p>\n

Surely I’m not the only viewer whose\u00a0faith in a veteran broadcast journalist has been shaken.<\/p>\n

Oh, how I want to be wrong, but I cannot help\u00a0thinking this isn’t going to end well for Brian Williams’ career.<\/p>\n

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I can’t help myself. Whenever I see pictures of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams covering the Big Story — in the flak jacket, or the hip waders — I keep thinking of\u00a0terms other than “journalist.” I keep thinking of terms like “show horse,” “entertainer,” “grandstander,” “show off.” OK, I know it’s likely unfair at … Continue reading Did the work horse become a show horse?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[748,963,2221,2334,3237,3269,3966],"class_list":["post-8147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-brian-williams","tag-chopper-gate","tag-hurricane-katrina","tag-iraq-war","tag-nbc-nightly-news","tag-new-orleans","tag-ritz-carlton-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}