Tonight I just turned off Brian Williams

Last night I was surprised to see Brian Williams doing the news-after THE NEWS. Tonight I was unpleasantly surprised again. Brian is indeed the very face of our corporate ruling class. I turned off the TV. And opened the window.

Submitted to: letters@usatoday.com

"The NBC anchor must have credibility?" - true but superficial

Link to American Free Press article

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 felt 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. I recommend our very own Gene Valicenti !

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Submitted to: letters@providencejournal.com

The Golden Age of Phoniness! ( Brian Williams )

I am trying to process this early morning radio news with Gene Valicenti. First Gene talks about the Herbal Supplement Hoax. What, no St. John's Wort in St.John's Wort? Then Gene comments on the Brian Williams scandal:  Williams was NEVER on board a military helicopter that was fired upon.

To be sure, this celebrity newsman is no Walter Cronkite. But the U.S. ruling class is not interested in HONESTY in the news coverage of our insane wars or HONESTY in reporting big business ethics scandals.

A while back I recall  PrOJO columnist Froma Harrop getting a 
little tired and bored and impatient with the J.D. Salinger's unforgettable character, young neurotic, middle class Holden Caulfield. Fans of "Catcher in the Rye" can never forget Holden's adolescent sensitivity to everyday PHONINESS. But that was back in the relatively honest post-war years. 

What kind of Holden could we imagine in this Golden Age of Phoniness?

To: John DePetro <john@630wpro.com