NBC Repeats CBS Piece Challenging U.S. Version of Strait of Hormuz Incident
Nearly a week behind the curve, the January 15 NBC Nightly News program virtually repeated the January 10 CBS Evening News story undermining the American version of the U.S.-Iran confrontation in the
The Pentagon described the January 6 incident as “an act of aggression,” and released a videotape with added audio of an English-language threat the U.S. ships received during the encounter: “I am coming to you ... you will explode after minutes.”
As CBS did last week, NBC emphasized that the radio threats received by
NBC anchor Brian Williams suggested
NBC Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski added his own skeptical note: “The navy says seven minutes into the encounter their warships received an ominous-sounding radio call.” [emphasis added]
Miklaszewski failed to report that the Iranian boats sped around the
Brian Fitzpatrick is senior editor at the Culture and Media Institute, a division of the