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Brian Williams Suspended For It, But Everybody Embellishes
Associated Press: Brian Williams had been a trusted voice in news for decades, until questions arose last week about his credibility when he admitted he embellished a story he covered in Iraq. Some speculate that
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Was Brian Williams a Victim of False Memory?
The New York Times: How reliable is human memory? Most of us believe that our memory is like a video camera, capturing an accurate record that can be reviewed at a later date. But the truth
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News Anchor Brian Williams and the Science of Memory
Memory distortion has become a hot topic this week in the wake of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams’s admission of falsely recounting one of his experiences during coverage of the Iraq War. For years
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We’re all susceptible to false memories
USA Today: It seems hard to believe that NBC News anchor Brian Williams would remember riding in a helicopter that was shot down if he was nowhere near it, but there are reasons that it’s
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The science behind Brian Williams’s mortifying memory flub
The Washington Post: When we tell stories about our lives, most of us never have our memories questioned. NBC’s Brian Williams, like other high-profile people in the past, is finding out what happens when questions
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It’s Crazy How Easy It Is to Make People Falsely Remember Committing a Crime
New York Magazine: Memory’s a pretty fluid and complex thing. We don’t always remember specific details of an event well, and what details we do remember can be influenced by stuff that happened after the
