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NBC's Pete Williams has emerged as the reporter out in front of all the rest during the coverage of the Boston bombing.
Williams famously stuck to his guns when rival reporters--most prominently CNN's John King--said on Wednesday that there had been an arrest in the case. He was proved correct; the suspects in the case were not revealed until a day later.
Early Friday morning, as the suspects killed a police officer, stole a car and engaged in a deadly shootout with police, Williams broke news again and again. He was one of the first to say that a suspect had been killed; the first to report that the men may have had overseas connections; the first to report that they told the man whose car they stole that they had carried out the bombing attack; and the first to report that the men were brothers.
At one point in the night, "NBC's Pete Williams" was trending overnight on Twitter.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/pete-williams-boston-reporting-nbc_n_3114880.html
He seemed to have all of the information.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Every other reporter needs to take a lesson from NBC news and Pete Williams.
CNN: we have a remedial course y'all can take 8 weeks over the summer.
Baitball Blogger
(46,682 posts)The right way.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)TeamPooka
(24,205 posts)ananda
(28,834 posts)The best of the three networks I skipped around to watch.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)JI7
(89,239 posts)i think he is different because he just cares about reporting the news and being accurate and not about being the first one to break the news or some other sensationalist crap to try to get attention for himself.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Earlier tonight:
Pete Williams on NBC says federal authorities read Dzhokhar his Miranda rights on the boat.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/boston-marathon-bombing-manhunt_n_3115239.html#185_mass-police-significant-amount-of-homemade-explosives-recovered
Now it is being reported that there were NO miranda rights given to suspect number two.
chillfactor
(7,572 posts)sometimes THEY are wrong....he never claimed to be God......are you mistake free?
then there is John King.........
City Lights
(25,171 posts)From what I've seen and heard, he was more accurate than anyone else.
Wednesdays
(17,311 posts)Note that Williams' error about Miranda didn't ruin some stranger's reputation and made his and his family's lives a living hell.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)Pete Williams as we should all remember was once Pentagon Spokesman. Draw your own conclusions.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Ok
chillfactor
(7,572 posts)Pete Williams has proven his worth time and time again. He would never report anything unless he checked and checked again.
I argued with another poster earlier who said Williams gave wrong information about the brothers being trained overseas and that they had only been in the US one year....try an explain to a dim bulb that that was the information that was being given out to begin with as always happens in fluid, rapildy evolving events..and misinformation is the norm..sheesh!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,682 posts)moondust
(19,958 posts)Solid.
Triana
(22,666 posts)Pete Williams must be the reason why. Good job. Others (CNN, Fox) could take lessons.
glowing
(12,233 posts)Or the kid was completely out of it needing medical attention and it wouldn't matter what was said?
Cha
(296,812 posts)john miller @deaconmill
Good to know Pete Williams did a good job. thanks onehandle
warrior1
(12,325 posts)He's just that good
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)brett_jv
(1,245 posts)I don't know myself, just askin'
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I think there is some speculation that older brother was radicalized in one of those halfassed training camps. That's not fully sourced, though, I do not think, so take it as supposition at this stage.
Both he and his brothers are believed to have military experience. NBC News learned that counterterrorism officials were examining possible links between them and the Islamic Jihad Union of central Asia.
They are citing NBC too, but NBC only reported it as a possible link and sourced it to "counterterrorism officials." Slightly better than "Some people say..." since they name the basic bunch of "some people," sorta, kinda.
That said, this Daily Mail report is loaded with small inaccuracies.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Tweety even had Rudy on today as if he's an "expert".
MADem
(135,425 posts)Don't impress me one bit, frankly!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)though--people are sick of fear, it pisses them off, now. Kinda ruins that GOP gig!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Damn shame they can't get it through their heads there is more to life than sex and violence.
MADem
(135,425 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)I remember when he was on the air here.
MADem
(135,425 posts)They stuck to facts and if they were reporting a supposition, they made it plain that it was unsourced.
The Williams I liked was Jack Williams, who said "I'll probably get in trouble for this, but that sounds like a bomb" or words to that effect, when the bomb went off. And then he said something like "I hope they catch the SOBs..."
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Pete Williams as Assistant Secretary of Defense at a press briefing, 1991
And there was the controversy of him being outed as gay way back 1991 - At a time when not even Don't Ask/Don't Tell was enacted yet and he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense
BREMPRO
(2,331 posts)very professional. THE model of good journalism on this story..\\\\\
now if nbc/comcast could just get their entertainment division working as well they might be back in business!
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)He said they were trained overseas and moved to the US less than 1 year ago. Which isn't true at all.
Shrek
(3,975 posts)And worked for Dick Cheney.