My guess would be the lengthy opinionated part.
VIDEO: NBC probes Williams' Katrina reporting Feb 9, 2015 CNN
NBC is reviewing Brian Williams' reporting during Hurricane Katrina. CNN's Brian Stelter reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMvu5K5Tclk
VIDEO:
Why the Left Think They are Better | Peter Hitchens Dec 11, 2018
Peter Hitchens explains why he thinks Left sees itself as progressive, with morality on its side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qCHRYMe66g
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The best response to your free cheap shot is to talk about Brian Williams and everything related to Brian Williams against the backdrop of how the high level media operates. It sets a good example for the other Conservatives. And that's how we win.
It should be plainly obvious at this point that I can't and won't be silenced. The best counter to what I'm saying, if you don't like what I'm saying or the way or manner of my posting is to simply raise the level of actual discussion. But that would require effort and some basic regard for this community. Who will be silenced will be anyone passing through who thinks about sharing , then hesitates and then walks away. They know people just like you are waiting for them. They aren't built like me and
I want to live in a world where different kinds of people can exist in the context of free expression. Not just those hardened and have to ram their way through the mob.
The end goal is always censorship, you didn't censor me, but you censored those who come after me. Your cheap shot for free for you, but expensive for everyone else. I care little about you choice of free speech but a great deal about everyone else's. This is where we differ the most.
Brian Williams ( remember him) also was under fire for his reporting during Hurricane Katrina. He said he saw a body floating by and clearly that wasn't the case. It was dramatic and made everything seem personal on a visceral level, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. To be balanced, Williams has a boss and staff writers and his own media/marketing team. These kind of things just don't go on the air without some deep thought and some internal investigation. There is tremendous pressure in justifying your contract. It's always been true in sports and we've seen people rise or wither under the weight of each play making them or losing them a massive amount of dollars, fame and public respect.
Why Williams, the stern efficient reliable "trustworthy" white heterosexual male in network broadcasting is getting phased out is partly because of what Christopher Hitchens describes as the implied morality linked to one's personal political viewpoint. Joy Reid is moral in her own eyes simply because she associates it in lockstep with her personal opinions as being moral. And if you are moral, you don't need to listen to anyone else's side and you don't need to ask yourself hard questions about your own behavior. And this is why identity politics can only exist as series of purity tests, even to the degree of being completely absurd.
If you are righteous, then that's an absolute, it doesn't need to be earned, it's embedded in holding onto a specific ideology at all costs. This is how someone can rationalize Thanksgiving as a battlecry for white supremacists to just start gunning down minorities.
I took your low value garbage post ( and that's exactly what it is, I call things straight) and I converted it into something far more. I did it for those who come behind us and after us who are trying to find their voice.
Brian Williams wasn't too expensive for MSNBC because of money. He was too expensive because he's a straight white male that represents social and financial privilege.
He wasn't pure enough. The identity politics ideology can't hold onto it's righteousness if it allows someone like Brian Williams into it's ranks. 28 years of prior service is meaningless because inclusion into profitable zealotry has nothing to do with what you earn. In salary or in merit.
If you want to really punish me, you'll have to raise the level of actual discussion first. The lesson for you is what's cheap is not the same as what's free.
