Will Brian Williams Have to Quit, Like Dan Rather Did?

After all, Dan was reporting something given to him; Brian was making up shit all on his own.

New Orleans residents who lived through hurricane Katrina remain grateful for NBC News anchor Brian Williams’ reporting from the city during and after the storm.

They just have doubts about some of it.

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They shake their heads at Williams’ having said that he saw a body floating face-down outside his hotel. They say it is highly unlikely that Williams’ hotel was “overrun with gangs”, as the anchor has said. They say there was no dysentery, a disease Williams has said that he caught while he was in the city reporting, and that bottled water was plentiful in the area – despite Williams’ claims to the contrary.

“I saw one of his tapes last night. He said he was told not to drink bottled water in front of people because people would kill you for it?” said Dr Brobson Lutz, a former director of the New Orleans city health department who is a longtime resident of the French Quarter and who ran an EMS station there after the storm. “That’s absolutely hogwash.”

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“The water that came from Lake Ponchartrain and all that, it was mucky, it was nasty-looking and all, but people didn’t go around drinking it. He said he mistakenly drank some of it, or somehow drank some of it – you’d have to be a fool to drink that water.”

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“I felt something get dislodged that changes the usual arms-length relationship between me and the stories I cover,” Williams said. “These are Americans. These are my brothers and sisters. And one of them was floating by.”

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“There were – most of the Quarter, I would say 95% of the quarter didn’t even get any floodwater,” said Lutz. “While there are some pictures of bodies floating around in parts of the more flooded areas of the city, there weren’t any bodies floating around the Quarter.”

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The Advocate later published a second report that documented flooding around the Ritz-Carlton, one hotel where Williams is believed to have stayed, and acknowledged that “a number of bodies were recovered in that general area”.

BC News did not respond to several messages left seeking comment on Friday. Network president Deborah Turness, a former ITV executive, said in a memo to staff that an internal investigation was under way. “This has been a difficult few days for all of us at NBC News,” Turness said.

  Guardian

Awwww. So sad.

 

He's sure READY for some body-floating deep water anyway.