http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/brian_williams This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Brian Williams en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010001 All three network evening newscasts misrepresented retired Gen. Wesley Clark's comments about Sen. John McCain on <em>Face The Nation</em>, with none noting that Clark praised McCain as a "hero" for his Vietnam war service. ABC's David Wright asserted that McCain's experience as a POW made Clark's comments "especially provocative." CBS' Dean Reynolds falsely suggested that Clark had questioned McCain's patriotism and had "critici[zed]" McCain's "service, including five years as a POW." And NBC's Brian Williams falsely suggested that Clark had impugned McCain's "war record." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010001 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:05:05 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806220001 On <em>Meet the Press</em>, host Brian Williams allowed Sen. Lindsey Graham to crop an answer Sen. Barack Obama gave on a Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire about whether he would commit to public financing for the general election if his opponent did so. While Graham read the question and beginning of Obama's answer aloud, neither he nor Williams noted that Obama concluded his answer by saying he would "aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election," which the Obama campaign maintains he did before determining an agreement with the McCain campaign was unreachable. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806220001 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:45:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806130004 NBC's Brian Williams offered no challenge to assertions by Sen. John McCain that Sen. Barack Obama has a proposal to "raise spending by $1.4 trillion over five years, and no way to pay for his programs" and that he -- McCain -- has "a plan to balance the budget." Williams did not ask McCain how he planned to pay for his proposals; nor did he note that economists and nonpartisan analysts reportedly say that McCain's proposal for numerous tax cuts would bloat the deficit or require huge spending cuts. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806130004 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:21:40 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805160005 On NBC's <em>Nightly News</em>, Brian Williams said that the Bush administration's decision to list polar bears as a threatened species was a "huge milestone." But neither he nor the <em>Nightly News</em> report on the subject mentioned that the "milestone" comes after environmental groups twice sued the administration to make a listing decision -- and just one day before a court-ordered deadline to make a final decision on the polar bear's status. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805160005 Fri, 16 May 2008 14:54:39 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802150012 NBC <em>Nightly News</em> anchor Brian Williams stated that the Republicans "left the House chamber to protest the Democrats' refusal to renew the foreign intelligence surveillance law, which expires this week." In fact, the House voted on a measure to extend the law in question, the Protect America Act, for another 21 days, but all 195 Republicans who voted on the matter voted against it. Moreover, the "foreign intelligence surveillance law" doesn't expire this week; the Protect America Act, giving the president broad authority to intercept communications involving people in the U.S. without a warrant, expires. Even without its renewal, the government has the authority to conduct foreign intelligence surveillance. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802150012 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:14:18 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801030007 On January 2, despite numerous references on NBC's <em>Nightly News</em> to Mike Huckabee's appearance later that night on <em>The Tonight Show with Jay Leno</em>, no one noted that Huckabee would be crossing a picket line in making the appearance. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801030007 Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:27:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200708290001 ABC's <em>World News</em>, <em>CBS</em> <em>Evening News</em>, and NBC's <em>Nightly News</em> reported that the death toll for U.S. service members in Iraq was down in July. But none of the programs noted at the time that U.S. troop death numbers for July, while lower than previous months, meant that this July was the deadliest July of the war. And none of the programs have reported the fact that the current number of troops killed in Iraq for the months of June, July, and August makes the summer of 2007 the bloodiest summer of the war for American soldiers. http://mediamatters.org/items/200708290001 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:20:48 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200706290003 In their reports on subpoenas issued by the Senate Judiciary Committee over the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program, media outlets uncritically quoted the White House claim that "[i]t's unfortunate that congressional Democrats continue to choose the route of confrontation" to suggest that Democrats were solely responsible for the committee's action. In fact, three Republicans voted with the Democrats to approve the subpoenas. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200706290003 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:14:59 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200706140002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200706140002 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:30:04 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200706140001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200706140001 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:37:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705220006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705220006 Tue, 22 May 2007 16:23:53 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705010001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705010001 Tue, 1 May 2007 12:25:37 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704270002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704270002 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:22:40 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704170010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704170010 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:07:55 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704040001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704040001 Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:20:23 EST