Brian Williams

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:52 am

The other night I watched Brian Williams on the NBC news. He told about the late Paul Harvey and how he would submit his articles to his friend, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, before they were aired on radio or TV. Williams finished up by saying they both were avid communist haters. Brian said it as if that was a bad thing. Makes me wonder why the whole thing was even brought up. Both Harvey and Hoover are dead now. I guess that makes them a safe, easy target for Williams and NBC "news".

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:11 am

No one slanders J Edgar Hoover the Communist hater and gets away with it.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:07 am

We often let folks know we are going to be running a story that names them and ask if they would like to comment. That's news stories though, not commentary. I do agree that if he submitted - which implies he sought approval - it was inappropriate. If, however, he just ran it by for comments, no problem, so far as I can see.

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:36 pm

flopstock;1285182 wrote: We often let folks know we are going to be running a story that names them and ask if they would like to comment. That's news stories though, not commentary. I do agree that if he submitted - which implies he sought approval - it was inappropriate. If, however, he just ran it by for comments, no problem, so far as I can see.

Hard to ask approval from dead guys.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:50 pm

LarsMac;1285255 wrote: Hard to ask approval from dead guys.
:yh_rotfl

I was talking about Harvey running things past Hoover:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl