NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE: Brian Williams, NBC News, NBC and Comcast capitulate to Andy Martin’s demand for FCC investigation
Media expert, law professor and conservative New Hampshire
Republican Party leader Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference Sunday
February 8th to respond to Brian Williams removing himself from the NBC Nightly
News. Moments after Andy conducted a news conference Saturday afternoon announcing
Andy was going to the FCC with the Williams scandal, NBC News’ responded to Andy
by issuing its surprise announcement that Williams was temporarily stepping
down. Andy will explain Sunday why the NBC/News/Comcast/Williams scandal is
talking on explosive Wall Street proportions. Andy has been a brawler on the
national media stage for forty-six years. Because of his unique combination of both
legal, broadcasting and media experience he has been a part of exposing numerous
major scandals (www.AndyMartin.com). NBC News once paid Andy the equivalent of
$25,000 for mistakenly airing one his of his TV spots. Because Andy is
independent of the legacy media, he is able to probe deeper and analyze better
what is now happening in the Williams scandal. “Williams may come back,” Andy
says. “But I am a little doubtful. I suspect NBC is scrambling for a
replacement right now.”
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Attention
New York
Announcement
of New York
FCC
expert/law professor Andy Martin draws “blood” from NBC and Comcast with Andy’s
Saturday news conference
Andy’s
Sunday news conference will explain why Brian Williams is doomed
Andy,
who has been a national media bulldog for forty-six years, continues to battle
for public integrity and media responsibility
(New York , NY February 8, 2015 ) Moments
after media expert and law professor Andy Martin conducted a New York news
conference on Saturday, February 7th to announce he is asking the Federal
Communications Commission (“FCC”) to open an investigation of Brian Williams,
NBC News, NBC and Comcast, NBC News responded by removing Williams from the NBC
Nightly News.
Andy has been a media brawler on the national stage for
forty-six years, since Andy’s name landed on one of President Nixon’s enemies’
lists. Andy honed his skills as a litigator against political, judicial and media
corruption during decades of fighting organized crime and media fraud in Chicago .
Today he resides in New Hampshire ,
where his mother was born and where he grew up playing in a creek around the corner
from where he now lives near downtown Manchester .
In New Hampshire , Andy is perhaps
the state’s only corruption fighter and truth warrior. Last year Andy’
advertising exposed Scott Brown for “stolen valor” and as a military fraud,
disrupted Brown’s announced Pentagon retirement ceremony, and likely caused
Brown to lose what was a close-but-winnable senate election.
“The Brian Williams scandal is much bigger and much more
lethal than ‘talking heads’ realize,” Andy says. “Well, I realize it. NBC News
now realizes it. Comcast now realizes it. It was no coincidence that moments
after I announced my call for an FCC investigation Saturday that Brian Williams
left the stage, perhaps never to return.
“Comcast has fifty billion dollars at stake, with hundreds
of millions of dollars in fees and other expenses, all tied up in the takeover
of Time Warner Cable’s assets.
“Here is Comcast’s regulatory problem, as implicitly reported
by the New York Post’s Page Six Saturday (see link below):
But network sources said Williams’ antics shouldn’t
come as a surprise to NBC News higher-ups. Execs knew he was overstating his Baghdad
“The top NBC executives knew the story was false and
told him to stop telling it,” an insider said. “They spent nearly a decade
trying to protect Brian from himself. It was a constant battle.”
“What does this mean in plain English? The ‘suits’ at NBC
are terrified of efforts to bring the FCC into the Williams scandal. The FCC
does not monitor or regulate the news. Plain enough. But the FCC does take very
seriously and regulate and investigate failure by licensees and broadcast
management to properly supervise their employees. Broadcasting false news, and
allowing an employee to lie, as Williams did, year after year without any
restrictions being placed on that person, is a very serious regulatory matter.
“The New York Post story makes clear that NBC management has
been aware of Williams’ lies for years, and did nothing to discipline him. It
took America ’s
veterans, outraged at the media’s tolerance of Williams’ lies, to bring down
Williams when NBC brass would not. Williams apparently went on making his crazy
claims even after being warned to stop. Until veterans stood up and said
‘enough.’
“Furthermore, Williams may have a lifetime history of
‘fibbing’ and exaggerating (second link blow). Telling lies over a lifetime is very
definitely a personality disorder and potentially even a psychiatric condition.
When you connect all of the dots, and the ‘floating bodies’ in New
Orleans and grounded chopper in Iraq
and all of Williams’ other mishegas
in context, NBC has a major problem on its hands. NBC management has allowed lies
to go uncorrected for years, not days or weeks. This is a complete failure of
licensee supervision. Corollary: Comcast could be headed to designation for a
hearing on the Time Warren matter, which would be devastating to the deal.
“Because of my own intermixed background in media and law (I
filed the first antitrust lawsuit against NBC, CBS and NBC decades ago), I saw
the pattern and recognized Comcast’s vulnerability before anyone else did,
which is why I announced my ‘FCC option’ Saturday afternoon. Once I exposed the
FCC option, Comcast knew they were now in the fight of their lives and had to
take immediate action to save their deal.
“The New York Post story (first link below) could also be interpreted
as an initial attempt by Comcast brass to rescue the merger and throw Williams
under the bus. How can NBC’s so-called ‘search for facts’ not probe prior
admonitions to Williams by NBC ‘suits’ now that these warnings are out in the
open? Is the Williams investigation going to be ‘wrapped’ in matter of days?
“In other words, Williams is doomed.
“NBC’s attempt to jettison Williams to save Time Warner
could boomerang. If NBC/Comcast allowed a cover-up to go on for years -- after
all, the crew with Williams in Iraq knew he was lying right out of the starting
gate -- the FCC will be embarrassed into talking regulatory action,” Andy
concludes.
February 8 New York
WHO:
Media expert/law professor and New Hampshire conservative Republican Party leader Andy Martin
WHAT:
Andy Martin will explain why the
Brian Williams media battle is much more serious than either NBC or Williams
are letting on
WHERE:
Corner of Wall Street and Broadway
(by the bollards), New
York
WHEN:
LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not
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http://pagesix.com/2015/02/06/nbc-sets-up-brian-williams-truth-squad/
http://pagesix.com/2015/02/06/brian-williams-also-told-iffy-tales-of-rescuing-puppies-from-fires/
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