2015 published letter to the editor : " Williams just another corporate charlatan " [ Brian Williams , the TV news anchor ]

Williams just another corporate charlatan I have no wish to deflate NBC news anchor Brian Williams for inflating or conflating personal Iraq war stories - usually distorted by the fog of war anyway. But behind Brian Williams, of course, are his corporate masters - the very individuals who intentionally lie us into nasty wars. What was more foolish than for the mass media to propagandize for an endless war on terrorism - every bit as futile and costly as the war on drugs? We see now that even modern medicine cannot win its arrogant war on germs. It is easy enough to protect any news anchor's credibility if he is instructed to tell the truth. But Brian Williams, the face of NBC, is also the face of our war propaganda. Was his phony-baloney war story also motivated by a need to sell the disastrous Iraq war to the American people, to conflate it with one of our also phony "good wars"? Even if Brian Williams is fired, it will be for lost sacrosanct credibility. But truth is not sacrosanct in the capitalist-owned news media. Brian Williams can quickly be replaced by another corporate cardboard charming charlatan. Ron Ruggieri