We cats are traveling, so we haven't been able to keep up on the news as much as we'd like lately. But this week's L'affaire Brian Williams has still managed to get our attention.
First we'd like to say that we'd just about given up on the network news shows. They are so cheesy. They spend seconds on incredibly important stories in order to run, between a thousand commercials, soft features on raising kids and other stuff we don't care about. As Mrs. Malaprop would say, if Edward G. Morrow were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
So we were unsurprised to see that Williams has embarrassed himself with his silly helicopter story. And while he's apparently repeated this tall tale not just once but several times (to David Letterman and Alec Baldwin, just to name two), there's another, even bigger reason that we find this scandal yawn-inspiring.
It's because network shows like "NBC Nightly News" lost our respect a long time ago, when they climbed aboard the Let's-Invade-Iraq Express and helped the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived to send Americans into battle on a lie. If they're capable of failing that big, why should we be shocked at Brian Williams's little helicopter fib?
But don't get us wrong: Pretty Boy Brian has utterly disqualified himself from journalism. He makes us want to hack up a hairball. At the very least, we HISS.
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