We co not report just the bad news about the war.
a car that did not crash is not news..neither is a house that did not catch fire. and I'm sure that the Iraq people know when their getting killed or bombed if we report it or not!!

That video crash, which has been replayed all over the media over and over again, is completely trivial and unimportant except as a local story.

As was your softball "Teatime with George" interview, sorry to say. I was hoping you would press him on what, exactly is this "Plan for Victory" he's touting. What would a "victory" look like at this point? What exactly is the "plan." Staying the Course and Completing the Mission are, um, slogans, not plans.

He refused to meet with seniors at Conference on Aging; instead chose a prescripted, prescreened meeting to a wealthy, insulated audience. You covered up the sounds of the protests outside and pretended that nothing was happening.

Why, O Why, can't we have a a news media?

My question: The governor of Louisiana asked for help and was severly chastized for her lack of action. According to NPR it would cost 31 billion to fix the levees, and yesterday the Congress was asked for 100 billion more for the war in Iraq (this brings the Iraq total to half a Trillion Dollars). Why was none of this brought up on your news broadcast? We wonder sometimes if the news is controlled as an item can be heard once and then vanish from the airways.
THank you, thank you for your coverage of Katrina. I believe the dislocation and moving of the people of New Orleans is the greatest government movement of people since the Japannese Internment Camps in WWII.
Please keep up the coverage of the plight of the people and land destroyed by the hurricane.

as for Mr. Williams' piece with President Bush... it was what it was suppose to be, a day's long look at the President's Schedule... Mr. Williams did ask some pointed questions (about reading newspapers, his critics), and Bush gave some stock answers... but that was to be expected... what I came away with was the fact that President Bush seems like a down-to-earth individual, more so than a lot of politicians. For a presidency that does not give a lot of access, this was a good look inside the Office.

Wow, the way you are portrayed! Guess it all lies in the eyes of the beholder after all.Glad you moved on.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Brian & Co.

What I want to know is what is the big deal in reaching a human being when looking for customer service by telephone? you select the option for a human, then wait 30 mins to hours for a human being to come on the line and then the human on the other end is in a call center in India with a heavy India or British accent that is difficult to understand! I'll continue to use email customer support, thank you! How about a story about that!!!!

I appreciate Brian William's at the helm of Nightly News so much that I want to tell him the truth: Last night, knowing that Brian was going to interview Pres. Bush, I chose ABC News. Bush's presence is so repulsive that I can no longer stand to hear him or his rantings. So Brian and the rest of you may consider me ignorant, but could you just shorten that to 'ignore'.

Brian, thanks for the courage tonight, to air a piece on the positive changes that are occurring in Iraq. But, saying that there would be more positive stories if it wasn't so dangerous for reporters, didn't ring true (they're there), it didn't sound credible, and it didn't sound like you.

Brian the American people are up set so anything goes now. We have a President that lies, Red Cross doing who knows what with money, Rove is about to be indicted, Novak is talking now and he says Bush knows who gave the leak, Bush Administration employess are leaving, we have secret jails/and torture kidnapped people. We hear our President say he takes blame for invading Iraq but that doesn't help the parents of the soldiers who died for that mistake. 100 per cent of Iraq people want us out, Bush saids no. Americans are building Iraq and their economy while we Americans and Katrina vitims suffer. We can't take anymore lies from our elected leaders. There are so many investigations on elected officials taking money, our government paying for fake information. Brian people are mad so I guess they have to take it out on someone so its taken out on you. Just keep giving us the truth and when this corrupt Administration resigns people will have something nice to say again.

So, why did you say tonight that the Pentagon "may" be spying when Lisa Myer's report and the documentary evidence shows that the Pentagon "was" spying on American citizens, Quakers no less.

Again, my concern is that NBC News appears to be bought and sold by the Bush administration. Please, please do not make any comparisons to FOX "news." And, just because Mr. Bush is available does not mean that a staged interview is newsworthy, even with the president. Let's move on to the real world and real issues. Thank you.

Golly gee, Brian ... I thought you did a superb job during your interviews with President Bush. I'm sure you must have invested much time, attention, and thought into preparing for your day with the President, and I appreciate your efforts. I gathered from your numerous blogs that you were enjoying the day -- I hope that's the case. I enjoyed the updates you gave on this blog during your travels ... thanks for taking me along on the trip. I couldn't resist checking in frequently to find the answer to my age-old question, "Are we there, yet?"

In case I don't get another opportunity, I'll take this chance to say, "Merry Christmas, Brian!!!"

To this wonderful, diverse group of fellow bloggers: For those celebrating the Season this month, "Happy Holidays!!!!" ... to those who are not participating, "Have a lovely evening!!!!". And, for those who are angry because I've chosen to share my joy during this Season on this public blog ... well, then -- I say (politely and most respectfully) ..... "Ring-y Ding-y this ....." :-)

Please, please, no more stories about the stupid O'Reilly/Fox News made-up non-controversy over the War on Christmas. It is such a manufactured story and I'm embarrassed for you every time you talk about it.

Bush himself said he didn't read the papers or watch TV. There have been numerous press acounts of Bush being out of touch with reality. Bush has often claimed to be out of the loop when bad things happened, like Scooter Libby outing a CIA agent.

You call all this a fiction. What evidence do you have, besides that Bush let you have an exclusive interview on one occasion and told you otherwise?

If you have any integrity, you can show it by defending your reckless statement. Otherwise, it looks very much to me and probably everybody else on the net that you promised to tell that lie in exchange for your exclusive interview.

Right on Steven from Beltsville MD !

Tell it like it is .

If only NBC would take that line of reacting to all these comments.

I guess it just shows how shallow they are.

Watching from Canada

Brian,
I think it is unprofessional for you to describe as "fiction" the President's lack of news awareness. Although in your fluff interview with him, he denies being "in a bubble," this hardly gives you the right to editorialize about the veracity of his statements. But I can tell from the overt flattery you offered him in your interviews, and from the lack of any questioning that could be considered good journalism, that your aim in these interviews was to bolster support for the President and to present him in a way that would make him happy. It's a shame that you wasted a precious opportunity to pressure President Bush to account for his mistakes and provide the public with more important information than "how he feels" when he sees the negative headlines on the magazines.

So what you're saying is that poor excuse for an interview was strictly you're doing? Say it ain't so JOE, say it ain't so! Also, you don't have time to read any of the blogs that you supposedly care about so much? Or is it that you have read them and seen how many people think you dropped the ball and now you have to pretend otherwise. I used to depend on being able to get the news from either yourself or Chris Mathews, but now it seems like both of you suddenly jumped on bush's payroll. WHY!!