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Brian Williams
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What was he like as a child? Brian was the youngest of four to parents who were entering middle age. He was raised in Middletown, New Jersey. He went to the Catholic University of American and George Washington University. But he never finished college. He had odd jobs from volunteer firefighter and an inter for former president Jimmy Carter. Then started his broadcast career in 1981.
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Who is Brian Williams? Brian Williams was born in Elmira, New York, on May 5 th, 1959. He began his broadcasting career in Kansas, before getting hired by WCBS-TV in NYC. When he was in WCBS, he won many Emmys. Soon after he won his Emmy, because of the stock market collapse, he earned a spot at NBC news.
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What did he do wrong? While he was with NBC, he faced a huge media firestorm when he revealed the he had false statements about being in a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq. Williams was suspended from Nightly News in February of 2015. In June of 2015, it was announced that Williams would be removed from Nightly News and join MSNBC as an anchor of breaking news and special reports.
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Don Imus
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What was he like as a child? He had a younger brother, and his name was Fred. He was raised in California and Prescott, Arizona, where his father owned a ranch. His parents divorced when he was 15. He then after dropped out and went into the Marine Corps. Band. From 1961 to 1968 he tried to be a rock n’ roll musician, but it didn’t cut out for him.
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Who is Don Imus? John Donald Imus was born on July 23rd, 1940, in Riverside, California. He began his broadcast career with “Imus in the Morning. He started at Palmdale, California. But was fired in 1977 due to unrestrainable imbibing. He went to Cleveland and made his first stab at recovery. He would be brought back to NYC in 1979, only to return to being a talk show host. He won several awards after that.
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What did he do wrong? Don Imus made a inappropriate comment about a girls collage basketball game. Calling referred them to Gardening tools, black people and Wannabees. But that now he has metal and physical issues. Because he now has Prostate cancer and has had it since March 16 th of 2009.
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A meme or two?
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Dan Rather
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What was he like as a child? Daniel Irving Rather jr. was born on the Halloween of 1931, in Houston, Texas. He is the eldest of three. His father laid pipeline for a living in Texas oil fields. But only his mother went to collage. His Family was determined to Dan graduate and go to collage.
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Who is Dan Rather? His parents gave him the interest in journalism when he was a teenager. So at the time he got to be a newspaper journalist. Once he got into collage, at Sam Houston State Collage, he edited papers. He also became interested as a Associated Press and United press and was working part time at a small radio station.
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What did he do wrong? Eight years ago, Dan Rather broadcast an explosive report on the Air National Guard service of President George W. Bush. It was suppose to be the big news but, the press nor President W. Bush didn't like it so instead of being favored for it, he was hated for it.
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