BIG FAIL. Just when I thought Slog was starting to wise up a bit.

Send Brian Williams into Louisiana with the National Guard

Who?
In all seriousness, why bring up people who squandered their five minutes of fame so long ago? What's next, a piece by what's her name, the older Southern gal who had the cooking shows until her racism was made apparent?
Can't we just let has beens and never weres die the death via obscurity they deserve?

None of this would've happened to him if he just didn't do two things.

Reporting of the original broadcast story isn't one of them. The two are,

1. Have a Anniversary Story on the 10th? Anniversary of the "Attack" on his nightly broadcast.

2. Show up at a hockey game with the army guy who supposedly saved him. And announced to the crowd that the guy was a hero. I didn't understand at the time. Why the army guy had a kinda perplexed, what's going on here look.

Now the press wants to look up the event, fact check. Then it all falls apart.

If he'd just let Slerping Dogs Lie. He'd still have his Anchor Chair.

Hey, hey, hey. There's only room for one Gloomy Gus around these parts, Brian, and it ain't you.

Brian Williams just needed more infrastructure.

That would have prevented him from going 100 mph in a 50 mph zone. Figuratively. But not Literally. And certainly, not actually.

Everyone needs more infrastructure to prevent us from hurting ourselves, and our positions in society especially high up mucky-mucks. Billionaires have their own private infrastructure, which is why nothing they ever do is wrong.

With more infrastructure, Brian Williams would still be delivering the news.

You need more infrastructure.
I need more infrastructure.
We all need...more infrastructure.

JBITDMFOTP

Here's me being a devil's advocate:

Brian delivers the news very well. His lies were never more than superficial, inconsequential, and were mostly crafted only to heighten truths for a public deafened by much worse lies. If he was in a position of "creating" news, as are so many worse characters in the news media who have neither the face nor the fame of Williams, piling on like this would make sense.

Brian Williams was a scapegoat in the truest and most ancient sense. The public needs a face upon which to pin the sins of what the public knows in their hearts to be a vast cultural problem. He is famous, he did some things that literally everybody in corporate media does (and wouldn't survive in corporate media if they didn't), and there's a collective, righteous sigh in sending him out into the desert.

We are being fed this drama by the larger system that wants us to believe that the problem is being handled. And we play into the drama, just as we are expected to. We're an easy mark.

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@8 - A lack of a moral compass and disregard for the truth is never superficial or inconsequential, nor should it ever be. Be it for presidents, politicians, or newscasters.

Still, he can try to resurrect himself over at MSNBC and he does have a good delivery.