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US Press: Lies and Damned Lies

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Feb 12, 2015
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The American news media is in an uproar over storytelling by NBC Television’s news anchor Brian Williams, who considerably aggrandized his adventures in Iraq by telling viewers a Chinook helicopter he was aboard in 2003 had been hit by RPG fire and that he had been forced to spend a few terrified hours on the ground.

It was one of several expanded storie…

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