NBC divisé sur le cas Brian Williams

Chaque journée qui passe semble apporter de nouvelles informations sur le cas Brian Williams. Si la décision finale a été de suspendre le présentateur pour six mois, je continue à demander comment il fera pour effecteur un retour et regagner sa crédibilité. Plusieurs joueurs influents auraient préféré un congédiement à une suspension. Sous le couvert le l'anonymat on apprend que ses journalistes du réseau n'appréciaient pas Williams et ils décrivent un portrait peu flatteur. On connaissait les récits exagérés de la vedette du service de l'information, mais personne ne semblait en mesure de le contrôler. Williams gagne 10 millions de dollars par année, de quoi attiser bien des jalousies. Les ambitions de celui-ci allait au-delà du service de nouvelles et il aurait même demandé à ce qu'on considère sa candidature pour remplacer Jay Leno à la barre du Tonight show, poste dont a hérité Jimmy Fallon.

 "NBC journalists, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they have been warned not to speak publicly, told The Washington Post that they were stunned by how quickly Williams fell from one of the highest perches in broadcast news.

They also said they were not surprised by the allegations that Williams had inflated his involvement in news stories and what he supposedly witnessed while on assignment. They said his exaggerations were an open secret at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and became an inside joke, mostly because they were not made on “Nightly News.”

“We lost people in Iraq; to us it’s not a joke,” a longtime NBC producer said. “It’s not something you glorify or pound your chest about. You don’t need to inflate these things. There’s just an overwhelming sense of loss.”

There is also a sense that the newsroom has been adrift since Comcast Cable took over NBC Universal in 2011. NBC journalists said editors who once kept a close watch over the broadcast have departed, leaving Williams to operate with few meaningful checks and balances."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/within-nbc-an-intense-debate-over-whether-to-fire-brian-williams/2015/02/11/8e87ac02-b22f-11e4-886b-c22184f27c35_story.html?hpid=z1