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    Brian Williams To Blame

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    Brian Williams is a newscaster and was formerly the anchor on the “Nightly News” which aired on NBC. He began his career in broadcasting in 1981 working for a news station in Kansas, shortly after he moved to New York City to work for WCBS. In 1993, Williams won his first Emmy for a report he did on the stock market collapse which gained him his position at NBC. At NBC, Williams started out as a White House correspondent. In 1996, he graduated from correspondent to anchor of CNBC and MSNBC on the

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    Brené Brown once said, “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” Integrity is threatened everyday by three major combatants: cheating, lying, and plagiarizing. Many do not realize the extent of their actions. Life is like the domino effect: an action always affects someone else. When a person lacking integrity makes a decision, the people affected are often wounded

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    Brian Williams is not afraid of being in the media spotlight, for he works with NBC Nightly News. CNN describes Williams as “the broadcast news nerd extraordinate—everyone’s friendly neighborhood TV news anchorman writ large” (D. Brinkley, “The Brian Williams case – that’s the way it wasn’t”, CNN.com). He is thought out to have a two-act personality of a serious journalist and a surprisingly funny clown. These two different personalities that he had, made him fail in considering that there were deaths

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    Contextualizes and explains our example: Brian Williams was a chief news anchor and managing editor for NBC Nightly News. He has earned many awards in journalism as well as recognition in the entertainment field. In 2003, Brian Williams,was reporting on the U.S invasion in Iraq. In this expose, he flew in 1 of 4 helicopters and one helicopter, the one directly ahead, was hit with an RPG requiring a forced landing. However, in 2013, Williams went on a late night news show and blatantly stated that

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    My cell phone alarm goes off at 8 am, and I grab my phone for my morning scroll. I start on Facebook and skim through the updates, only clicking on two pieces: one, Dan Rather’s posts in which he writes live updates about his road trip to Mount Rushmore with his grandson, and a Vox article about Disney’s live-action adaptation of Aladdin. After reading the latter, I switch to Chrome to look up the lead actors, finding a more detailed article in The Atlantic. After an hour of following the “bunny

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    camera or a camera. Our memory tends to be terribly selective and constructive. Article Summary In the article Was Brian Williams a Victim of False Memory by Tara Parker-Pope she focuses on memory. As Tara Parker-Pope discusses, “numerous scientific studies show that memories can fade, shift, and distort over time.” She questions the national controversy involving Brian Williams, the “NBC Nightly News” anchor. She states

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    In his essay “But Enough about You” Brian Williams addresses a very interesting issue about the user- generated media and the Mainstream media in today's society. He believes that the ideal American culture has changed because people are only concerned about themselves. Nowadays people are more interested to watch news if the implied message involves them or if it's good enough to tell someone else. Williams explains how all the new devices, the web, video and the digital cable fill a perceived people

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    upbringing, spurned by his creator (or father) and abhorred by all whom he met, one may ask what could he do but reciprocate those feelings? However, the Creature further incriminates himself as a malignant being with his reaction to his murder of William, as he exclaims, “I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph;” This reaction we must surely perceive as one of “unparalleled barbarity.” The creature continues to portray himself as a being of

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    This included shows throughout Japan, Germany, Ireland, the United States, and his favorite place England. Happily, he tells of his time in Shawn Michaels wrestling school and his time with fellow wrestler Brian Kendrick. Further along he gives credit to his true mentor and life-long friend William Regal for introducing him to the wrestling style of the United Kingdom. He also describes his first attempt at the WWE, and his firing just weeks later. Later he tells of his desire to form a new wrestling

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    "We have something special here, something we don 't want to lose. We have a way of life, a way of looking at ourselves, a way of reacting to the world. Mr. Mulroney 's trade deal will change all that. It will make us a little more then a junior partner of the United States. I believe in a strong, sovereign independent Canada. I believed that we are now talented enough and competent enough and tough enough to make our own choices, for our own future, in our own way. I need your support on November

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