Brian Williams - six month suspension. We shall just see.

Now some sympathetic idiot on RollingStone.com is saying Brian Williams is not at fault, because he didn't write the copy that he read on-air, saying he was in a chopper that got hit by an RPG. 12 years before the 2015 imbroglio that has surfaced now. He even says Williams "has no reason to be suspicious about the copy for this story. He has not been accused of lying yet. Maybe he glosses over it. Of the things he is worried about that day, this story, just a guess, probably is not one of them." http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/brian-williams-and-the-smoking-gun-that-isnt-20150214#ixzz3Rwg2Xcv5

Horseshit. Williams has repeated this story, publicly, many times. Okay, so I'm me: I'm on air, and my teleprompter says "I'm Mike, and I've had a sex-change operation". First of all, I wouldn't forget that... but more importantly, having read my copy over first... or even not having read it... what do you suppose I would do? Am I so mindlessly spewing out what I read, without thinking about it, my mind lost in space, that I wouldn't even notice? I kinda doubt it, eh.

So to Simon Vozick-Levinson the author of this RS piece, I say: nice try. Fail.