Brian Williams is a newscaster and was formerly the anchor on the “Nightly News” which aired on NBC. He began his career in broadcasting in 1981 working for a news station in Kansas, shortly after he moved to New York City to work for WCBS. In 1993, Williams won his first Emmy for a report he did on the stock market collapse which gained him his position at NBC. At NBC, Williams started out as a White House correspondent. In 1996, he graduated from correspondent to anchor of CNBC and MSNBC on the show “The News with Brian Williams.” Then in 2004, Williams took over as anchor NBC’s leading show the “Nightly News,” which was hosted by Tom Brokaw for 23 years (Biography.com Editors, 2015). In February of 2015, Williams admitted to embellishing …show more content…
Rather than trying to cover up the Williams scandal, NBC had senior executive producer, Richard Esposito, leading the investigation of Williams. Farhi wrote in The Washington Post (April 2015) that Esposito found that Williams had fabricated eleven stories. These stories included Williams’ time in Egypt when he was covering the Arab Spring as well as his time in New Orleans when he was covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as stated by Kieran Corcoran of the Daily Mail. Initially, NBC was not sure if they were going to release Esposito’s findings, however, in doing so they have demonstrated that they value their credibility and transparency. According to Vanity Fair (2015), a group of NBC executives reviewed Esposito’s findings and decided that it would be impossible to keep Williams on at NBC and dismiss his actions. They suspended him because it was the right thing to do to protect NBC’s credibility as a news outlet rather than “categorically deny and prove wrong all of these [accusations]” (Burrough, April …show more content…
According to the SPJ Code of Ethics, a journalist should “never deliberately distort facts or context” (2014). Williams did this on multiple occasions throughout his career with NBC. However, he had a difficult time accepting all of the blame and wrote if off as forgetting what really happened or having something wrong with his brain, according to Bryan Burrough of Vanity Fair (2015). The apology that he released also underwent public scrutiny. SPJ says that journalists should acknowledge their mistakes, correct them quickly, and explain themselves carefully and clearly which Williams failed to do (2014). Burrough wrote in his article that the apology made by Williams only made the situation worse (2015). He did not accept responsibility for lying rather he spoke as if he could justify his actions by trying to honor a veteran. The Vanity Fair articles attributes Williams’ less than thoughtful apology to a lack of help from NBC executives to form an appropriate apology. While his apology was not the best, it was still released in a timely fashion. According to the SPJ Code of Ethics journalists should “respond quickly to questions about accuracy” (2014). Williams did so when he wrote his initial response and apology to soldiers on Facebook and when he apologized on air. Once his lies were made public he did not deny anything which is better than trying
Big break happened in 2003, his career went way up high; he joined the ABC News, and has stayed with them until present day. He started as the anchor of the overnight news program, “Worlds News Now”, although his involvement on ABC News gradually grew; in 2007 he was the anchor of the “World News Saturday”. In 2012 he became an anchor of the weekend newscast, which was called “World News with David Muir”. In addition, in March 2013, he was promoted as the co-anchor, with Elizabeth Vargas, on ABC`s 20\20. These promotions earned him a salary of $5 Million. As of June 2014, he has become the anchor and managing editor of ABC World News; his debut broadcast was on 1st September
Throughout the history of America’s pastime, baseball has continually battled scandals and controversies. From the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal to the current steroid debate, baseball has lived in a century of turmoil. While many of these scandals affected multiple players and brought shame to teams, none have affected a single player more than the 1980’s Pete Rose betting scandal. Aside from the public humiliation he brought his family and the Cincinnati Reds, nothing has done more to hurt Pete Rose than his lifetime ban from baseball making him ineligible for hall of fame. While many are for and against putting Pete Rose in the hall of fame, the four ethical theories, Kantianism, Utilitarianism, Egoism, and Ethical Realism, each have their own unique answer to the question. Through Kantianism Pete Rose should be inducted into the hall of fame, while Egoism, Utilitarianism and Ethical Realism all support the lifetime ban.
"I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation."
Leslie Silko certainly makes accusations that some could argue far exceed the boundaries of journalism integrity, and fail to deliver with evidence to back them up.
White collar crime is a term created by Edwin Sutherland in 1939 that refers to crimes committed by people of higher social status, companies, and the government according to the book “White-Collar Crime in a Nutshell” by Ellen Podgor and Jerold Israel. White collar crimes are usually non-violent crimes committed in order to have a financial-gain (Podgor and Israel 3). A very well known white collar crime that has even been taught in many history classes is the Watergate scandal. This is a white collar crime that was committed by government authorities. Watergate was a crime that shocked the nation.
THE WATERGATE SCANDAL Watergate is a hotel in Washington D.C. where the Democratic National Committee held their campaign headquarters. The current president at the time was Richard M. Nixon, who was involved in the scandal himself and which lead to the cause of his resignation. The Watergate scandal should not have happened, but it did and it caused the American people to judge less of their government system. The scandal began on June 17, 1972, with the arrest of five men who were caught in the offices of the Democrat’s campaign headquarters. Their arrest uncovered a White House sponsored plan of espionage against the political opponents and a trail of intrigue that led to some of the highest officials in the land. The officials involved in the Watergate scandal were former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, White House Counsel John Dean, White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldman, White House Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman, and President Nixon. On April 30, 1973, nearly one year after a grand jury investigation of the burglary and arrest of the people involved, President Nixon accepted the resignation of Haldeman and Ehrlichman and announced the dismissal of John Dean. Furthermore, U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resigned as well shifting the position to the new attorney general, Elliot Richardson. However, Elliot Richardson decided to put Harvard Law School professor Archibald Cox in charge of conducting a full-scale investigation of the Watergate break-in. Hearings were opened in May of 1973 by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Activities with Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina as the chairman. Suddenly, a series of startling revelations began as Dean testified that Mitchell had ordered the break-in and that a major attempt was under way to hide White House involvement. Dean also claimed that President Nixon had authorized payments to the burglars to keep them quiet. The Nixon administration denied any involvement in the scandal, but the testimony of White House aide Alexander Butterfield exposed Nixon and unlocked the entire investigation. On July 16, 1973, Butterfield told the committee, on nationwide television, that President Nixon had ordered a taping system to be installed in the White House to automatically record all conversations. With this what Nixon had said and when he had said it was on the t...
Watergate Burglary Thesis: Governor Willie Starkie surrounded himself with people that were crooked, just like President Richard Nixon. The people who were in charge of getting Nixon elected did what was necessary to get Nixon elected. I. Watergate first break in occurred on May 28, 1972. A. The burglars attempted to unscrew a lock.
The name “Watergate” is a term to describe a difficult web of political scandals between 1972 and 1974. This word refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. On June 17, 1972, the “Watergate Burglars” broke into the Democratic Party’s National Committee offices.
Wells Fargo account fraud scandal One of the most recent white-collar crimes involved Wells Fargo, a banking and financial services provider. In 2016, San Francisco-based bank Wells Fargo (WFC) employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts without permission of their customers. Opening about 1.5 million fraudulent deposit accounts and submitting 565,443 credit card applications allowed Wells Fargo employees to boost their sales targets and receive bonuses. Consequently, customers were wrongly charged fees for accounts they did not know existed. In this business crime scenario, Wells Fargo is involved in paying $185 million in fines and refunding $5 million to affected customers.
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The United States Justice System is founded on In it's historical context, Watergate was not a surprising development when it is considered that Nixon was a paranoid personality capable of using any avenue to insure that his political objectives were attained. He had proved that early in his political career in his famous Checkers speech. By the early 70's however the nation had changed. It wasn't as easy to dupe the public with sappy speeches to explain away political indiscretions. The country was seriously concerned about our involvement in Southeast Asia and how the administration was going to extricate itself from the disaster. The media was on the job during this watershed period in our political history.
The Watergate Scandal was political problem that occurred in the United States during the 1970s. On June 17, 1972 a break in occurred at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office Complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon's administration attempted cover up of its involvement. In the morning of June 17 1972, a couple of burglars were caught and arrested inside the of the Democratic National Committee, located at the Watergate building in Washington D.C. this was no ordinary robbery. The robbers were connected to the United States president Richard Nixon re election campaign, and they were caught trying to wiretap the phones. The robbers who tried to wiretap the phones were not successful. more robbers broke into the Watergate building with a new microphone, but a guard noticed that they broke the locks on the doors. The guard called the police as soon as possible, they showed up and caught the crooks red handed and took the to jail. it was not completely clear that the crooks were connected to the president Richard Nixon. There were suspicions that they were connected to nixon because detectives found the white house phone number in the spies junk. In later came that the president was not telling the truth. a few days after the break in president nixon provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in “hush money” to the spies/burglars. Then president Nixon and his aides established a plan to instruct the Central Intelligence Agency to impede the fbi's investigation of the crime. this was a bigger crime the the break in at Watergate this was abuse of presidential power and deliberate obstruction of justice. The watergate scandal was about president nixon and a few secret agents trying to steal secret government i...
The Watergate Scandal The Watergate scandal involved a number of illegal activities that were designed to help President Richard Nixon win re-election. The scandal involved burglary, wiretapping, campaign financing violations, and the use of government agencies to harm political opponents. A major part of the scandal was also the cover-up of all these illegal actions. “Watergate, however, differed from most previous political scandals because personal greed apparently did not play an important role. Instead, Watergate attacked one of the chief features of democracy – free and open elections” (Worldbook 1).
In May 2014, Snowden gave an uncovering meeting with NBC News. He told Brian Williams that