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College Classroom Talks Brian Williams Scandal

Brian Williams was the focus of a broadcasting class at USI.

“It’s important because it relates to reliability and it relates to honesty in the news. One thing about being an anchor is you gotta have that trust, you gotta have that credibility and that’s what’s under fire right now,” said Broadcasting Professor Dr. Dave Black.

Students feel this issue relates to their studies.

“We need to always have factual information and make sure we know what we are talking about before we say something. Especially being on the news or doing something with radio TV,” said Tia O’Neil.

Williams has been under scrutiny for his misrememberance of events that occurred in March of 2003, when he was reporting in Iraq. Students feel his use of language may have been the problem.

“I feel like if he said he misunderstood what they were saying instead of misremembered he would have been better off and not under all of this flak,” said Jacob Utley.

“I think he had good intentions of what he was trying to say but it just didn’t come out right. And a lot of times that’s what peoples problem is, they have good intentions of saying something but they just come out and say it completely wrong and a lot people just misunderstood him,” said O’Neil.

One student says if after NBC’s investigation, Williams falsified events he covered in the field, his credibility will be gone.

“If that becomes a repeated pattern in his reporting than his credibility should absolutely be shredded,” said Jacob Kalb.