Every media outlet is piling onto this Brian Williams story. CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS; they are all claiming that they must report it “to maintain credibility in the news.” Where do these guys get the ego to say they are standing up for credibility? I have ranted about the media before. During the Garner and Ferguson mess every media outlet was piling on cops, simply because it was easy to sell stories that way. My conclusion is that “news”/ media outlets nowadays should be treated like the internet: you shouldn’t believe everything you read or hear.
Every single “news” outlet manipulates details of a story to be more appealing to the consumer. Did Brian Williams get caught? I suppose there is evidence suggesting that yes, he may have extrapolated details from a story in 2003. Put yourself in B-Dawg’s shoes in 2003. He was in Iraq during the “post 9/11-let’s-go-kill-some-motha-fucka-terrorists” hoop-lah. On top of that, Williams was attempting to fill the shoes of Tom Brokaw, one of the greatest news anchors to ever exist. Can you blame the guy for extrapolating details? Shit, if I were him I would have added a gruesome injury, like I got hit with some RPG shrapnel that got stuck in my leg, and I had to crutch back to my anchor desk every night. I’d give myself a journalistic Purple Heart and rub it in Katie Couric’s face every time I limped by her in the studio.
Williams has been arguably the most credible journalist in the past decade (and a darn good rapper too). When you think of all the CNN and FOX News bullshit spewed on the regular, you have to admire Williams’ consistency. Every journalist exaggerates stories, every single one. They won’t make it far if they don’t. Everyone is piling on Williams because when you have a chance to eliminate the top dog, you do it. Blood is in the water; the only thing Williams can do is ride it out. Maybe he could ask his daughter to get her ass eaten out again on “Girls” to spark another media firestorm to take some heat off of him.
In other news, Charles Manson (80) got his heart broken yesterday. Supposedly Manson’s fiance, Afton Elaine Burton (27), had a plan to marry Manson to obtain the rights to his corpse, which she planned on turning into a tourist attraction so her and her friends could make a lot of money. What. The. Fuck. I don’t even know where to begin with this story. I initially had Stockholm’s Syndrome for Manson; poor Charles thought he was going to wed happily in psycho matrimony. But I have no sympathy for him. Did you really think some girl 53 years younger was digging you for your ideas and your tats?
But I am really baffled by this Burton girl. She is clearly dedicated to a business idea. If I were an investor listening to Burton’s pitch, saying she was willing to marry and fuck an 80 year old for the rights to his body, I’d certainly admire her commitment. I’d consider throwing her a couple bucks for merchandising rights. I would spring for all the profits to the T-shirt and coffee mug sales at the gift shop in the Manson Museum. She needs to channel her psycho entrepreneurial efforts into something more reasonable like developing a new freemium game. “Manson Family Feud” available in the App Store now!
The kicker is that Manson was apparently stringing her along. He doesn’t like the idea of being trapped in a marriage, he just wanted someone to bring him toiletries. There is no love more intriguing than that of two psychopaths wedding to exploit each other. 
