Brian Williams lambasted on Twitter after issuing apology (with poll)
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NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams’ “most trusted” journalist status has taken an embarrassing hit after being called out in the Stars & Stripes newspaper for lying about riding on a helicopter that came under enemy fire when he was reporting in Iraq in 2003.
Here’s Williams’ apology on Wednesday’s “Nightly News.”
Watch this clip from his 2013 interview with David Letterman in which he says, “Two of our four helicopters were hit, by ground fire, including the one I was in.”
People have not responded kindly to this breach of journalistic trust. #BrianWilliamsMisremembers tweets and memes were born, and it became a trending hashtag on Twitter:
#BrianWilliamsMisremembers: News anchor mocked for false war story http://t.co/NL7UtA1fuN pic.twitter.com/r5qcgTcBvn
— Geoff Herbert (@deafgeoff) February 5, 2015All those other times throughout history that #BrianWilliamsMisremembers http://t.co/rRdeDSXVwj pic.twitter.com/tHWrbX6EAC
— Amanda Wills (@AmandaWills) February 5, 2015And then Han Solo and I rescued Princess Leia from Darth Vader's ship #BrianWilliamsMisremembers pic.twitter.com/t7g9xJxFvI
— GuruChat (@Guruchat) February 5, 2015#BrianWilliamsMisremembers Paying off the entire national debt. With one bake sale.
— Marc Hilliker (@MarcHilliker) February 5, 2015But do you think Williams’ apology is enough? Mobile users, click here to take the poll.
And if you want to see more #BrianWilliamsMisremembers tweets, check it out here.
This story was originally published February 5, 2015 at 10:38 AM with the headline "Brian Williams lambasted on Twitter after issuing apology (with poll)."