July 13, 2011
It seems to me that maybe there are a lot of people who didn’t understand my explanation on the first page of my blog, entitled “Brian Williams at NBC is a fraud.”
I’m going to reprint some excerpts from that explanation here.
--In the first excerpt, in which I quoted him from a December 27, 2009 article in USA Weekend called “The Best News of 2009,” he said “Several nights a week, we air a new segment called ‘Making a Difference.’” Please note the fact that he said that ‘Making a Difference” was a new segment, to indicate that it was something that hadn’t existed before 2009.
This is a time when I’m going to make a “no code” clarification, for someone else; at the time that Mr. Williams appeared in USA Weekend in 2009, the word “new” had obtained no code significance; it meant “new” and that’s all.
--In the second excerpt, I explain how I knew for sure that Mr. Williams had faked a “Making a Difference” report and that he’d tried to make it seem as if he’d been running the segment since 2005. I’ve put the definitive tip-off in bold print, this time.
People who want to read or re-read the process by which I figured out what Mr. Williams had done can start at the beginning of the first page on my Weebly blog, entitled “Brian Williams at NBC is a fraud.”
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Excerpt 1
July 15, 2010 @ 3:29 p.m.
Brian Williams appeared in USA Weekend on December 27, 2009 in an article called "The Best News of 2009." Here's a quote from him in that article: "We've been pleasantly surprised that our ratings are up this year over last. Considering we were in the midst of a history-making presidential election year (and the downward trend in the news biz, in general), that's saying something. Why us? Why now? It has been theorized that a spoonful of "good news" might just have helped. Several nights a week, we air a new segment called "Making a Difference.""
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Excerpt 2
July 15, 2010 @ 7:44 p.m.
The reason that I wanted to look up Jon Powers's birthdate is that both the written article by Kevin Tibbles from 11/17/2005 and the fake "Making A Difference" report start by saying that Jonathon Powers is 26 years old. It's the first thing that Mr. Tibbles says in the fake "Making A Difference" video. It's definitely footage from 2005, from a story about Jon Powers that was a legitimate news story at the time it was made but which has been taken and falsely represented as part of Mr. Williams's attempt to cover up for the fact that he took the idea for his "Making A Difference" segment from something I wrote on Friendster in 2009. I'm not sure why he's gone to all this trouble; I've said many times that I never begrudged him the idea. I wasn't copyrighting anything I wrote on Friendster then and it has seemed to me that "Making A Difference" on the whole has proven to be a positive contribution to the world. I would really like it if Mr. Williams and everyone who's been supporting him stopped harassing me now, though.
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July 13, 2011
In January of 2009, when I wrote my essay on Friendster about the need for a “Good News Show,” the harassment of me hadn’t yet started to be sexual harassment.
I didn’t have a blog such as my blog on Weebly or on WordPress until the summer of 2010. I had been using my Friendster profile as a daily, temporary blog. I’d write on that profile and then a few hours later or the next day, I’d remove what I’d written and write something else.
Also when I wrote that 2009 Friendster essay about hope, that I reprinted last year at the beginning of the page entitled "Brian Williams at NBC is a fraud"; since the harassment of me wasn’t yet sexual harassment, I couldn’t even have anticipated that a little more than a year later I would think carefully before using a word such as “spring” in anything I wrote.
Copyright L. Kochman July 13, 2011 @ 1:04 p.m.
(Transferred from the first part of the blog page July 13, 2011 to its own page here @ 1:40 p.m.)