1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil1 medium onion, quartered and thinly sliced3 celery stalks, thinly sliced1 medium carrot, thinly sliced8 medium garlic cloves, very thinly sliced2 tablespoons grated ginger, peeled3/4 teaspoon finely ground white pepper, plus more to taste1 1/2 cups mushrooms, trimmed8 ounces firm tofu, sliced into thin slabs2 1/2 teaspoons fine grain sea salt

Brian Williams appeared 146 times on Letterman/Tonight Show/Daily Show/Ellen between 2006 to 2011 http://wapo.st/1MmDuth

WaPo had 10 reporters working on that Brian Williams front page story.

On CNN,Carl Bernstein NBC has a real obligation to publish the results of its investigation

Jon Mann, Seal Team Six

WaPo had 10 reporters on that big, Brian Williams front pager: http://wapo.st/1MmDuth

Good @Acosta@Acosta segment on Obama

WaPo had 10 reporters on front pagers looking at Brian Williams storytelling through the years: http://wapo.st/1MmDuth

WaPo staffers typically cant sign petitions. But @PostBaron made exception for @jrezaian:

Washington Post

Washington Post Staffers Petition For Release Of Colleague Jailed In Iran

http://huff.to/1yyFp3N

he was once nicknamed Iron Pants for his willingness to work seemingly nonstop.

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Barnes, Angela" Date: February 13, 2015 at 9:37:00 AM ESTTo: NEWS - All Newsroom Subject: Petition for Jason Rezaians release

All of you know that we must avoid advocacy in our news coverage and that our ethics guidelines impose constraints on participation in political activities.However, we can be advocates for press freedom and for the freedom of our colleagues.I bring this up because there is a petition onChange.orgfor Jason Rezaians release from an Iranian prison and the outrageous, unjust charges he faces.You can find it at:change.org/freejasonPlease know that you are free to sign this petition if you arent among the very few people likely to be covering this story. You may also share it with friends via Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.The voices of many thousands of individuals calling for justice can do nothing but help Jasons cause, and it allows us to state clearly that we stand united on his behalf.Marty

Didnt pass the smell test just on the face of it.

CNN spent TKMIN tonight on

Dead on his desk on the 4th floor. panel, was found dead at his desk.

New York Times columnist David Carr, one of the most incisive and influential writers on the media and culture, died Thursday night after collapsing in the newsroom. He was 58.

Times executive editor Dean Baquet informed staff of the death of their "wonderful, esteemed colleague"

"He was the finest media reporter of his generation, a remarkable and funny man who was one of the leaders of our newsroom," Baquet wrote. "He was our biggest champion, and his unending passion for journalism and for truth will be missed by his family at The Times, by his readers around the world, and by people who love journalism."

Carr's death came as a shock to the industry and amid a tumultuous media news cycle that included the suspension of NBC anchor Brian Williams, announced departure of Daily Show host Jon Stewart and tragic death of legendary CBS News correspondent Bob Simon -- all events the Times columnist wrote and commented on in the past 48 hours. Earlier Thursday, Carr moderated a TimesTalk New School in New York for an event with Edward Snowden, and journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras.

Remembrances poured in over social media.

Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote on Facebook that Carr "collapsed in the newsroom he loved, doing what he loved, surrounded by those who loved him."

"David was media columnist and hugely admired in the profession," he continued. "I think that's partly because the news industry sometimes seems to be struggling for its soul, and David always exemplified both soul and integrity."

Carr served as editor of two alternative weeklies, The Twin Cities Reader and Washington City Paper Before joining the Times, Mr. Carr was a contributing writer for The Atlantic Monthly and New York magazine. In 2000, he was the media writer for Inside.com, a website focusing on the business of entertainment and publishing.

David Carr spoke of having an immigrants love of the place and its daily miracle."

He died in The Times newsroom:

Did Brian Williams embed with SEAL Team 6?Did Brian Williams embed with SEAL Team 6? http://cnn.it/173DjSP

"Having arrived here late in my professional life," Carr one wrote, "I have an immigrants love of the place and its daily miracle."

"Having arrived here late in my professional life," Carr one wrote, "I have an immigrants love of the place and its daily miracle."

David Carr, who died in the Times newsroom, once described having an immigrants love of the place and its daily miracle."

Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. called Carr one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

Sulzberger describes Carr as one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.http://bit.ly/1Clsh6x

He combined formidable talent as a reporter with acute judgement to become an indispensable guide to modern media, Sulzberger said. But his friends at The Times and beyond will remember him as a unique human being full of life and energy, funny, loyal and lovable. An irreplaceable talent, he will be missed by everyone who works for The Times and everyone who reads it.

Before coming to New York, he served for five years as editor of Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly in Washington, D.C. From 1993 to 1995, he was editor of The Twin Cities Reader, a Minneapolis-based alternative weekly, and he wrote a media column there as well.

Carr joined the Times in 2002, covering the media

For the past 25 years, Mr. Carr wrote about media. He joined The Times in 2002 as a business reporter covering the magazine publishing industry. His column appeared in the Monday business section and focused on media issues, including print, digital, film, radio and television.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-greenberg/42/74a/398

Vice President, Standards and PracticesNBCUniversal News GroupDecember 2014 Present (3 months)Senior Director, News Standards and PolicyNBC NewsJuly 2010 Present (4 years 8 months)ProducerNBC News - DatelineSeptember 2000 July 2010 (9 years 11 months)ProducerCBS News - 60 MinutesMarch 1996 September 2000 (4 years 7 months)ProducerABC NewsDecember 1989 March 1996 (6 years 4 months)

When I go to Iraq, as I have four times, I have to volunteer for it. No one sends me. I raised my hand. When I raised my hand recently, and wanted to make my fifth trip in October, I have a coworker named Tom Brokaw who thought that was a bad idea, and he told me so. And so I canceled the trip. Once he said dont go, I dont think its safe right now, that totally jinxed it for me - and what was I going to do? Look my wife in the eye and tell her no, it would be fine?

Maureen Down, the talented but tart columnist for the Times, was traveling with us and was granted a brief interview with Obama. When we brought her to the front of the plane for the interview, however, Obama proceeded to blister her for a previous column she had written. No one got under Baracks skin more than Maureen, whose penchant for delving into the psyches of her subjects was particularly irritating to the self-possessed Obama. Normally polite under any circumstances, he was patronizing and disrespectful to Maureen in a way I had rarely seen. This was not well received by Dowd who, like most journalists, was accustomed to firing off salvos, yet decidedly uncomfortable when fired upon herself. After that awkward encounter, she seemed to take particular delight in psychoanalyzing Barack and belittling him in print ,which only depended his contempt. Maureen, who is as gracious and loyal to her friends as she is rough on the high and mighty, would become a friend of mine in Washington, which became a minor source of tension with Obama. Why are you friends with her? he would demand after Maureen sent one of her acid darts his way.

Maureen Dowd rejects suggestion her coverage of Obama shifted after heated exchange

How NYT played Williams/Stewart on A1

Times of Israel

June 05 March 07On background

John Reiss

I dont, but doesnt mean it didnt happen.

No idea. The 2011

Heres what I would look

If Lester succeeds, this may be the end of the star system. the thinking had been huge star, him or her, lots of money.

Do we need to pay an anchor 10 million, or int he case of Katie $15 million.

I had said this tot chuck todd last week.

brian was doing as much as he could. his third block, im sure, lets get some of brians personality in there.

he has skills that other anchors dont have. to that extent it might change a bit.

my hunch is theyre going to make this work.

when we went from tom to brian, everyone has to feel comfortable.

my hunch,

its choice b. and that, by the way, is not unique to nightly. at some point, these guys become so big, you question them are your peril. i suspect not former anything

i think they all roll your eyes

havent talked to Pat the EP

I watched that story evolve over a decade.

id be surprised

if you read the tea leaves,

two things are going to happen in th next few months: in spring time, everybodys ratings go down. traditionally, the difference, the spread between nbc and abc, almost disappears in may/june. the week before i took over we beat abc by 4000 people. the june, and we began to grow and by oct, we were winning by 700K.

it is inevitable that lesters number will go down and his spread will decrease dramatically. im saying watch out apples to apples. You cant look january to july, have to look july to july

I know Brian Williams fatigue has set in, but hes talked lot about another Iraq aircraft incident were curious about over here.

Can be assumed Daily Show attracts young audience than Nightly, but heres some #s to back it up.

Assumed Daily

Nightly News attracts young audience than Maddow? Not surprised by Daily Show, but interesting Maddow viewers older than Nightly: http://pewrsr.ch/1ChrxQ7

More suprrised Nightly:

NBCs Sept 2003 book, Operation Iraqi Freedom, former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw described Williams as keeping us appraised of missile attacks launched at Kuwait. Later, the book notes how Williams, anchoring for NBC and MSNBC, had a prime seat from Kuwait see Special Operations units staging for missions into Iraq. The book showed Williams reaching the Baghdad airport on April 9, but didnt specify how he got there.

The book covers the now-infamous Chinook helicopter incident, though didnt claim Williams own aircraft was hit with RPG fire. Williams first Nightly News report on the incident occurred live on March 26, 2003 from Kuwait City.

At the start of the war, NBC News set up four embedded journalist teams led by correspondents Kerry Sanders, Chip Reid, Dana Lewis, and David Bloom, who was killed just weeks into the conflict. None of the units listed in the book included SEAL Team Six. The book, however, did include a photograph of three Navy SEAL patrol boats in Kuwait City.

The book describes Williams as deck of cards/ vincent brooks

73%

Depending on where you are, it sure feels and sounds and looks like a hot zone.

reporting by flashlightnext to an army vehicle

april 9, 2003

Please change this:

flashes and concussions here by nightinstead of

Questions Emerge Over

Usha helped a lot in smoothing things out and making more cohesive since theres a lot of reporting/research here an

In February 2014, Williams elaborated on the helicopter gift in another media appearance, this time on the sports talk show hosted by Dan Patrick. "Its one of the toughest things to get," he said, "and the president has a piece of it as well ... Its made of a material most people haven't seen or held in their hands."

Same day Zucker says hed love to hire Jon Stewart, @PaulBegala recalls day he blew up Crossfire: http://cnn.it/1uKe6YR

Dozens of News orgs and journalist advocacy groups support new safety guidelines for freelancers on dangerous assignments: http://apne.ws/1E5vUh7n unprecedented set of safety standards designed to protect freelance reporters on dangerous assignments.

http://apne.ws/1E5vUh7

BuzzFeed runs promo-video for Obamacare alongside interview package http://wapo.st/1DKOOvu

Updated w/ SOCOM response: "We do not embed journalists with this or any other unit that conducts counter-terrorism missions"http://huff.to/1Dl3MIl

http://cnn.it/1uKe6YR

CNN chief Jeff Zucker: Wed love to have Jon Stewart: Zucker says Brian Williams ordeal has been "incredibly sad and disappointing http://huff.to/1EhvkMM

Great look at all aspects for the NYT, from printing plant to R&D to page one meeting: http://bit.ly/1KMOo84

Bob Simon on absurdity of some pre-Iraq War coverage: http://to.pbs.org/1zONzKl

http://huff.to/1Dl3MIl

Did Brian Williams fly into Baghdad with SEAL Team 6? Does he and Obama have piece of chopper from OBL raid? http://huff.to/1Dl3MIlhttp://huff.to/1Dl3MIl

The network went wall-to-wall with Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo,Jake Tapper, and others on-the-ground in Paris to cover the attack and its aftermath. Viewers responded: compared to January, 2014, CNN was up 63 percent in total viewers during the day, attracting 516,000 viewers, and up 71 percent in the coveted 25-54 demo with an average of 168,000 viewers.

Also Read: Cable News Ratings: A November to Remember for Megyn Kelly, Don Lemon

In primetime, the net grew 48 percent in viewers, averaging 602,000 viewers, and up 72 percent in demo viewers with an average of 225,000 viewers. Sister network HLN also had a strong start to the year, up double digits in all measurements. The network, which premiered social-media-laced shows The Daily Share andJack Vale: Offline in January, was up 39 percent in total viewers and 32 person in the demo during the day. In primetime,HLNwas up 19 percent in viewers and 12 percent in the demo.

Reporters Without Borders says 2/3 of countries performed less well on press freedom issues than the previous year. Full list http://index.rsf.org/#!/

Two-thirds of the 180 countries surveyed for the 2015 World Press Freedom Index performed less well than in the previous year.Full Reporters Without Borders interactive, from Finland to North Korea: http://index.rsf.org/#!/

I know theres Brian Williams fatigue, but theres few other war stories weve been trying to sort out. US drops to #49 on world press freedom index following Risen case and Ferguson arrests: http://bit.ly/1EetsVbhttp://bit.ly/1EetsVbhttp://index.rsf.org/#!/index-details/USA

d yet its still stuck a murky situation that we cant definitely say he lied about this. 1) Would like to tweak hed to Brian Williams' False 2003 Iraq Helicopter Claim Draw Scrutiny To Other War Exploits2) Instead of: Its possible Williams was flown in with a special operations unit when he arrived at Baghdad on April 9, 2003, but theres no mention in the book of how he was transported there.

Lets just say: Theres no mention in the book of how he was later transported to Baghdad.

With SEAL Team 6

Williams again recalled flying into Baghdad with SEAL Team 6 on Letterman in Jan. 2013.. He mentioned the having the great privilege of spending time with our special operators.

"About six weeks after the Bin Laden raid, I got a white envelope and in it was a thank-you note, unsigned," Williams said on "Letterman" in 2012. "And in it was a piece of the fuselage of the blown-up Black Hawk in that courtyard. Sent to me by one of my friends."

A year later, Williams once again appeared on Letterman's show, and again recalled the trip with SEAL Team 6.

I flew into Baghdad, invasion plus three days, on a black-out mission at night with elements of Seal Team 6, and I was told not to make any eye contact with them or initiate any conversation, Williams said. (Three days after the U.S. invasion wouldve been March 22, 2003, not April 9, 2003, the day he broadcast from the Baghdad airport).

It was like horses in the gate, right before a mission, he recalled. This guy had a wristband with his human target that he was after when we landed. It was one of the members of the deck of cards, one of the leadership targets. They are amped! This is the best we have.

Williams also recalled carrying a box of Wheat Thins, which a hungry special operator dug into with a hand the size of a canned ham." They got to talking, and Williams told him how much he admired the commando's knife.

NBC News had four teams a

reporting from Kuwait City and described the now-infamous Chinook helicopter incident (though didnt mention Williams aircraft being hit with an RPG).

Tell Israels story

http://www.npr.org/people/313122450/juana-summers

Interesting question Columbia asks in Rolling Stone/UVA review: Did you ever tell the reporter that Jackie had an imperfect memory when it came to her account? http://bit.ly/16SFKaR

Williams also gave varying accounts of Katrina and the Israel-Hezbollah war coverage during interviews long after the events took place.

Unlike most media scandals, the questions surrounding whether Williams can be trusted are as much about his public

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/nbcs-brian-williams-told-varying-versions-of-rocket-fire-in-israel-hezbollah-war/2015/02/08/d9866acc-afe1-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html

While the http://bit.ly/1z7MglU

Great nugget in @gabrielsherman piece: NBC has widened their probe to include Williamss expense accounts.

http://nym.ag/1EWRWWT

Tyndall Williams' suspension -- and a six-month experiment to test whether a celebrity anchor is as dispensable to those newscasts as I believe he is.

Aasif Mandvi, Jessica Williams, Jason Jones/ Samantha Bee

I can say around this building, I think everybody was stunned by the announcement

You knew that something was going to be done and something had to be done.

But because Brian was such a fixture here, and if you go outside the halls and you see a decade of Brians work as Nightly News anchor, it;s hard to imagine this quick of a turn. But the

Deborah and Steve Burke made itv dry clear their priority, at this time is protecting NBC News at all else.

Theyre very, very tough comments. And yet Steve Burke has a very good relationship with Brian Williams.

In the beginning

that Brian would actually get through this better than he did.

Steve Burke puts the company first.

Six months without pay leaves a lot of people in this building to ask whether Brian will ever come back.

Mika: I think there will be another chapter. I dont know what it will be.

NBC News TranscriptsMay 3, 2011 TuesdaySHOW: NBC Nightly News 6:30 PM EST NBC

WILLIAMS: Now, people might be hearing about SEAL Team 6. I happen to have the great honor of flying into Baghdad with them at the start of the war. What is SEAL Team 6 as opposed to all the other teams, and why are we hearing about them?

Kate

Not interested in any way of being quoted

917-226-5935

Brian Williams suspended for six months: http://huff.to/1yb2XLO

Molly Ball's career path seems to follow trends in journalism, starting with the "objective," standard newspaper and moving upward towards the snazzy headlines of opinionated news magazines with Facebook fans and trolling commenters. "No, Liberal Don't Control the Democratic Party," declares one of her headlines for The Atlantic. And "Appointmentpalooza in the Senate? Don't Bet on It."Ball graduated with a Bachelor's in English Language and Literature from Yale in 2001 and began working for The Cambodia Daily, an independent newspaper founded by an American and published in the capital Phnom Penh under the tagline "All the News Without Fear or Favor." Starting in 2004, worked as a general assignment reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, which prides itself on "editorial excellence and community service." She joined the staff of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the larger paper that prints and distributes the Sun, in 2006 to cover politics, and in 2010 became a national politics reporter at Politico, where "reading a story should be just as interesting as talking with the reporter over a sandwich or a beer."Ball currently writes for The Atlantic, which she joined in 2011 ahead of their Election 2012 coverage. Currently 157 years old, The Atlantic was "revitalized," "almost doubling" it's revenue from 2005 figures, according to Jeremy W. Peters' 2010 article in the The New York Times, through "a rapid refocusing toward the very uncivil world of the Web." The magazine was reinvented "by pretending it was a Silicon Valley start-up that needed to kill itself to survive," Peters wrote. "The Atlantic is the source of opinion, commentary, and analysis for Americas most influential individuals who wish to be challenged, informed, and entertained," according to its mission statement. The aims of these publications all suggest a tendency towards more of the opinion, commentary, and divisiveness for which American politics and media are currently criticized, wel well as towards a "new media" minded journalist. And yet, "in a chaotic, Twitter-driven campaign, the Atlantic reporters posts felt as welcome as coming home to a well-informed weekly magazine," writes Dylan Byers in a list of "10 breakout political reporters of 2012." Byers complements Ball for "bringing an old-media, swing-state mentality to the digital side of this year's effort." Her coverage of the 2012 election won her the Newhouse School's 2012 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. Ball seems to have struck a balance, keeping up with current media trends while keeping old-media in mind. On twitter, @mollyesque tweets out her own articles and announces upcoming guest appearances, retweets articles from other publications, and frequently trades jokes with fellow politics writers like Slate's David Weigel and Mother Jones' Tim Murphy. She doesn't start conversations with users she isn't following and a search of her twitter handle reveals little no noise from readers disagreeing with her stances. She is a panelist on PBS' Washington Week, has answered viewer phone calls on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and is a frequent Monday guest on KCRW 89.9 FM, NPR's Californian flagship station.

Molly Ball's career path seems to follow trends in journalism, starting with the

"objective," standard newspaper and moving upward towards the snazzy headlines of

opinionated news magazines with Facebook fans and trolling commenters. "No, Liberal

Don't Control the Democratic Party," declares one of her headlines for The Atlantic. And

"Appointmentpalooza in the Senate? Don't Bet on It."

Ball graduated with a Bachelor's in English Language and Literature from Yale in

2001 and began working for The Cambodia Daily, an independent newspaper founded by

an American and published in the capital Phnom Penh under the tagline "All the News

Without Fear or Favor." Starting in 2004, worked as a general assignment reporter for the

Las Vegas Sun, which prides itself on "editorial excellence and community service." She

joined the staff of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the larger paper that prints and

distributes the Sun, in 2006 to cover politics, and in 2010 became a national politics

reporter at Politico, where "reading a story should be just as interesting as talking with

the reporter over a sandwich or a beer."

Ball currently writes for The Atlantic, which she joined in 2011 ahead of their

Election 2012 coverage. Currently 157 years old, The Atlantic was "revitalized," "almost

doubling" it's revenue from 2005 figures, according to Jeremy W. Peters' 2010 article in

the The New York Times, through "a rapid refocusing toward the very uncivil world of the

Web." The magazine was reinvented "by pretending it was a Silicon Valley start-up that

needed to kill itself to survive," Peters wrote. "The Atlantic is the source of opinion,

commentary, and analysis for Americas most influential individuals who wish to be

challenged, informed, and entertained," according to its mission statement.

The aims of these publications all suggest a tendency towards more of the

opinion, commentary, and divisiveness for which American politics and media are

currently criticized, wel well as towards a "new media" minded journalist. And yet, "in a

chaotic, Twitter-driven campaign, the Atlantic reporters posts felt as welcome as coming

home to a well-informed weekly magazine," writes Dylan Byers in a list of "10 breakout

political reporters of 2012." Byers complements Ball for "bringing an old-media, swing-

state mentality to the digital side of this year's effort." Her coverage of the 2012 election

won her the Newhouse School's 2012 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.

Ball seems to have struck a balance, keeping up with current media trends while

keeping old-media in mind. On twitter, @mollyesque tweets out her own articles and

announces upcoming guest appearances, retweets articles from other publications, and

frequently trades jokes with fellow politics writers like Slate's David Weigel and Mother

Jones' Tim Murphy. She doesn't start conversations with users she isn't following and a

search of her twitter handle reveals little no noise from readers disagreeing with her

stances. She is a panelist on PBS' Washington Week, has answered viewer phone calls on

C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and is a frequent Monday guest on KCRW 89.9 FM,

NPR's Californian flagship station.

Bob Wright defends Brian Williams over chopper incident, but adds that anchor never comes back with negative stories on the military: http://pge.sx/1zqvhKi

He has been the strongest supporter of the military of any of the news players. He never comes back with negative stories, he wouldnt question if were spending too much.

Ob

Maureen Dowd gets under Obamas skin: http://huff.to/1DAS2Sj

Guy Hernandez

I just did a film, a documentary on Louisiana and if you get five minutes will c

Maureen Dowd rejects Axelrod suggestion her Obama coverage changed because of tense 08 exchange: http://huff.to/1DAS2Sj

He endorsed that view of his case on Monday. I have maintained from the day of my arrest that my case was never about leaking, he said.

Kiriakou says his case not about leaking info: My case was about torture. The C.I.A. never forgave me for talking about torture. http://nyti.ms/1ATbutM

Its not clear exactly which column rankled Obama, but Dowd did write on Obamas big foreign trip during the 2008 campaign. In a July 20 column from Washington Ich Bin Ein Jet-Setter Dowd described Obama gearing up for the trip through Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and Germany in mythological terms. Obama, she wrote, has to swiftly and convincingly perform the political equivalent of the Labors of Hercules. In her next column, writing July 23 from Jerusalem, Dowd asked whether The One as Senator John McCains had mockingly described the Democratic nominee was cocky or commander in chiefy?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/opinion/23dowd.html

Producer Justin Balding recallsOne of the chopper crews ahead of us spotted a pickup truck. As the Iraqis waved, a man suddenly whipped off a tarpaulin to reveal another man armed with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. He took aim and fire.

The book doesnt specify which helicopter was hit, but describes the seen as follows: The grenade entered the helicopters open tail, tore a hole in the fuselage, and grazed a crewmans face, but fit not detonate.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tRENAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=brian+williams+iraq+chinook&source=bl&ots=hiFwP_2AUa&sig=c6jmLODeLFPbPj22KVSEhhPFoiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rLHSVLyoFoegNsTzgGg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=chinook&f=false

http://1.usa.gov/1z1IeeC

NBC News

January 9, 2015 Friday

SHOW: TODAY SHOW 7:00 AM EST

The report on an independent investigation into the NFL`s handling of the Ray Rice scandal is out, and it found out that there was no cover-up in that infamous elevator video, but it does call the league`s handling of the case into question.

BYLINE: CARSON DALY, PETER ALEXANDER

SECTION: NEWS; Domestic

LENGTH: 1524 words

HIGHLIGHT: The NFL this season endured perhaps the worst public relations disaster in its history. This is the ninety-six-page report, and it doesn`t absolve the league for its mishandling of the Rice case. Instead, it says the NFL`s own investigation was badly inadequate.

CARSON DALY: And we`re back now at seven forty-three. The report on an independent investigation into the NFL`s handling of the Ray Rice scandal is out, and it found out that there was no cover-up in that infamous elevator video, but it does call the league`s handling of the case into question. NBC`s national correspondent Peter Alexander has the latest. Peter, good morning.PETER ALEXANDER (NBC News National Correspondent): Hey, Carson, good morning.The NFL this season endured perhaps the worst public relations disaster in its history. This is the ninety-six-page report, and it doesn`t absolve the league for its mishandling of the Rice case. Instead, it says the NFL`s own investigation was badly inadequate.(Begin VT)PETER ALEXANDER: With more hard hits expected on the field this weekend, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has yet again escaped any serious blow.SALLY JENKINS (The Washington Post): Roger Goodell has survived. I think that this report probably puts an end to his job insecurity.PETER ALEXANDER: Nearly a year after that infamous punch, Ray Rice knocking out the woman who is now his wife. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller`s investigation found no evidence that anyone at the NFL had or saw the in- elevator video before it was publicly shown. Still, Mueller blasts the league for what he calls a limited investigation that ignored substantial information that suggested it should have done much more.SALLY JENKINS: The takeaway is that the NFL`s internal investigation was deficient.PETER ALEXANDER: Critics like the National Organization for Women are still demanding Goodell resign. How do you spell whitewash? N-F-L, they wrote. The NFL last month announced a new personal conduct policy, and Goodell told me the league is tackling its problems head on.Why should critics be confident that this time you got it right?ROGER GOODELL (December 2014): Well, we`ve changed the policy. We`ve strengthened it. We`ve toughened them.PETER ALEXANDER: The report leaves some questions unanswered. The Associated Press says Mueller`s investigators never spoke to the law enforcement official who told the AP he`d sent a DVD of the assault to the NFL last spring. But Mueller`s report says the AP declined all of Mueller`s investigators` request for information, including the law enforcement source`s contact information. For now, Ray Rice is focusing on his future, as he told Matt late last year.RAY RICE (December 2014): I took full responsibility for everything that I did and only thing I can hope for and wish for is a second chance.PETER ALEXANDER: Still on the sidelines, a free agent without a team.(End VT)PETER ALEXANDER: The NFL says it accepts the report`s findings and recommendations. The scandal, though, isn`t over just yet. Ray Rice has a grievance hearing against the Baltimore Ravens, his old team, next week, where he is demanding the nearly four million dollars he lost when he says he was unfairly fired by the team. Savannah and Carson.PETER ALEXANDER: All right. Peter Alexander, thanks.SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Coming up, who will win? Maybe more importantly, what will the stars wear--your complete guide, this Sunday`s Golden Globe Awards. But first, these messages.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)

Brian Williams producer pushes back against report that he also claimed their aircraft hit by RPG: http://huff.to/175fwCS

Watched a man commit suicded at the super dome

When you look out of your hotel window in the french quarter

Ritz Carlton 5-star hotel overrun by gangs or seeing body flu

Lt. Gen. Russel L .Honore (US Army Ret)Commander, Joint Task Force Katrina

Only saw one body and had it immediately removed.

If he was a newsman and he saw a body floating by his hotel, why didnt he go grab it? Why didnt he get somebody and report

Either report it , which youre supposed to do, or as a human being go out and try to assist that person.

One of his reports about gangs. That amount of violence reported, would think the city was under siege.

Alec Baldwin: What was the first, first, first job you had?Brian Williams: Well, fast forward. Im at Catholic University having transferred my meager credits. Guy named Rocco comes into our dorm, and says, Does anybody want my internship in the White House? I raised my hand, because I had a blue blazer from my job at Sears in Middletown, New Jersey. I interviewed for it and got it. Jimmy Carter was President. Obviously, it was a nonpolitical position. I made copies. I got shirts at the cleaners. I made coffee, but I also wrote constituent letters, and I got into it.

Vice President, Standards and PracticesNBCUniversal News GroupDecember 2014 Present (3 months)

Ghazi.Balkiz@nbcuni.com

Obama calls Vox a site for :brainiac-nerd types http://politi.co/1DTIe3P

We were there, standing there as fellow citizens, watching fellow citizens suffer and die:

matthew.cole@gmail.com

http://politi.co/1DTIe3P

Another one: Williams told varying versions of rocket fire in Israel-Hezbollah war http://wapo.st/1yYw4mJ

Politicos @s says its been a while, but Washington is about to get a great gossip column. Says new column will be in spirit of Washington Stars Ear

Kate Glassman Bennett, a fourth-generation Washingtonian who cut her teeth on gossip in the competitive world of Las Vegas before returning home to DC, will soon launch The KGB File for us at POLITICO. Kate promises a column very much in the spirit of the legendary late Diana McClellan, whose Ear in the Washington Star was the original must read in a company town where the backstage happenings of its congresspeople and Cabinet officers, columnists and chefs have always helped chart the ebbs and flow of power. Kate is a former gossip columnist for the Las Vegas Sun and editor in chief of Vegas Magazine (not to mention classics graduate of St. Johns College); most recently here in DC she has edited Capitol File magazine, Washingtonian Bride & Groom and Washingtonian Mom. For Politico, she promises a great read multiple times a week: fun, coy, insightful, a tad biting and smart.Stay tuned for more on the launch: Kate starts work with us on Feb. 23

Rolling Stone editor @wdana has commented for Columbia J-School report on UVA story, which is still underway: http://huff.to/1C7G5Pr

http://huff.to/1C7G5Pr

NBC anonymously suggesting Espositos investigative team is fact-checking Williams, not investigating his claims: http://wapo.st/1zy5swP

Politico hires @katebennett_dc to write a gossip column, The KGB File

Steve Coll on UVA review: "We are starting to draft the report and hope to complete it as soon as possible http://huff.to/1C7G5Pr

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Hezbollah a the terrorism

Esposito runnMatt Cole works for Esposito

Esposite killed the story because he didnt want to make the agency angry

He knew about the NYPD stuff

What happened with Cole and the Mumia thing. Why wouldnt Esposito want to run that story.

Cole is working on the investigation

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Our Brian Williams splash borrowing from recent NBC ad campaign: http://huff.to/16GYYjQ

Rolling Stone editor @wdana, who still wont take questions about UVA story, weighing in on Brian Williams mess: https://twitter.com/wdana/status/564213093681860608

https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/564437613415649281