GPS Studio Services wrote:
Totally toast and a liar to boot!

Yep!  The most egregious part of it was that the guys that are getting pounded every day out there and knew it was a lie were silenced in some way for all these years.

NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote:
What did he say exactly?

He said, "Our convoy got hit and we took fire?" instead of "One of the helicopters in our convoy got hit and they took fire?"

Is that basically the whole deal?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/col … /22915325/

the story kept swelling into a major "fish" tale. it wasn't his original report that was the problem. someone inside of 30 rock should have told him to cool it years ago.

ernst tischler wrote:
Alas, they cannot all be a Cronkite, some would Rather make stuff up.

cue the trombones.

whaa, whaaa, whaaaaaa

Rik Austin wrote:
They kept Nancy Snyderman.  They will keep him.  Hard to forget whether you got hit by an RPG but kind of hard to forget about Ebola a well.

maybe he'll take an extended vacation. the caribbean is really nice this time of year. or vail, if he does the skiing thing.

GK photo wrote:
maybe he'll take an extended vacation. the caribbean is really nice this time of year. or vail, if he does the skiing thing.

She was gone about a month wasn't she?

It's a shame though I like them both.  Just proved they are human.  Now they have to do like the rest of us and live and learn.  Life goes on.

ernst tischler wrote:
My neighbor has been saying for years that all the major national news are just "another reality show"...the he follows with the statement, "and we know how true, honest and real life reality shows are."

Correct

It isn't journalism anymore, and it has not been for quite some time.

They are for-profit ventures, not the old way of acting in the public interest.

It is all about ratings and money, not about the news.

As for the original question, I don't think it will be a big deal, I'd be surprised if they even ask him to take time off because of it.

Shot By Adam wrote:
I just read through the transcript of the press conference and he kept using the word "mistake" a lot. Funny how these idiot journalists tend to confuse the word "lie" with "mistake".

So very true!

DOUGLASFOTOS wrote:
Mission Accomplished

That one made sense if you know who put that up any why.

But you're right, the media (like Williams' NBC) did turn that one into something that it wasn't and did so for political reasons.
That sort of thing is so common with the so-called MSM that they're not very trusted these days... which is why it's fun to watch them squirm when they get busted publicly like Williams and his "chopper whopper".

Lightcraft Studio wrote:
.... like Williams and his "chopper whopper".

LOL. This one is going to stick.

Lightcraft Studio wrote:
.... like Williams and his "chopper whopper".

Click Hamilton wrote:
LOL. This one is going to stick.

i prefer "chinook wind-bag", only because i just thought of it.

DougBPhoto wrote:
It isn't journalism anymore, and it has not been for quite some time.

Never was. The idea that journalists reported "the truth" and that we could trust them to report truthfully and accurately are relatively new ideas. And they weren't really true even when we thought they were. We just didn't have the resources to check on them. The idea of impartial journalists reporting the news is myth.

Al Lock Photography wrote:

Never was. The idea that journalists reported "the truth" and that we could trust them to report truthfully and accurately are relatively new ideas. And they weren't really true even when we thought they were. We just didn't have the resources to check on them. The idea of impartial journalists reporting the news is myth.

In the 60's and 70's Walter Cronkite was voted "The most trusted Man in America".

...you mean he was lying?   O.M.G. I'm devastated.

Uncle Walter?

rfordphotos wrote:

In the 60's and 70's Walter Cronkite was voted "The most trusted Man in America".

...you mean he was lying?   O.M.G. I'm devastated.

Uncle Walter?

Cronkite's nightly reporting of the siege of Khe Sahn demonstrated the same biases and failure to report accurately that most journalists have been infected by. Just because the American people trusted him doesn't mean they should have.

Justin wrote:
Not the first time that a guy was in an excitable situation and let his ego and machismo translate it, one telling to the next, into something much grander and more impressive. Not the first time by, oh, a few billion times. Bet it won't be the last, either.

yeah, like i said earlier: a fish story that got played out on national tv.

GK photo wrote:
what say you? should he be?

i think he is done, and it's just a matter of how to let him go out gracefully; or as gracefully as he can. it sucks, but that was a total bonehead move on his part. and i certainly hope this doesn't fall within the so-called soapbox umbrella. it's really more entertainment oriented, than political.

more than anything, i'll miss the rap mashups they made with him. they were pretty funny.

I would hope he's not toast over making a mistake. He's human and subject to making errors. Maybe he got wrong information. Maybe he was told to say this by someone. I just saw a video where he apologized and it sounded sincere to me.  I realize the news and sports news are not quite the same thing, but on the ESPN show PTI, they actually have a segment where they find out "where they screwed up". It happens. I say let it go.