Brian Williams, Jon Stewart And Modern Media Trust (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

We try not to make the media the story, but this week it simply is. News anchor Brian Williams, benched by NBC for troubles with the truth. “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart, the stand-up comedian who remade the American conversation around news and our lives, will step down, quit, leave the show. Veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, dead in a car wreck in Manhattan. And the one and only David Carr, gravel-voiced onetime crack addict media columnist for the New York Times, collapses in the newsroom. Dies at 58. This hour On Point: A watershed week, and the news media now. /Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/02/13/brian-williams-jon-stewart-nbc-suspension-trust