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NBC Evening News Anchor Brian Williams Lied - But That's Just the Beginning of How Social Media Has Killed the Evening News

NBC Evening News Anchor Brian Williams Lied - But That's Just the Beginning of How Social Media Has Killed the Evening News | Communications Major | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - February 9, 2015 11:00 AM

This was a bomb that had been ticking for a while.

NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it was a joke in the news division.

But in the age of social media, keeping TV news relevant is apparently one battle that even the 'heroic' Williams will probably lose.

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VIDEO: Donald Trump Defends Himself on Twitter After Brian Williams Burn on NBC

VIDEO: Donald Trump Defends Himself on Twitter After Brian Williams Burn on NBC | Communications Major | Scoop.it
From mashable.com - November 8, 2012 2:20 PM

In case you missed right-wing Twitter rants by Donald Trump, you can stop before driving "well past the last exit to relevance" and read them here. The Donald, as the world's greatest combover is still called, was about to end his latest "15 minutes" of fame, until NBC anchor Brian Williams came along and gave him another 41 seconds. This stopped Trump from tweeting about the Obama reelection as the end of the world and diverted him (for the time being) into tweeting about Brian Williams' TV ratings.

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