Brian Williams: SOCIAL MEDIA KILLED THE VIDEO STAR

Well, well. Blame it on FARCEBOOK.

NBC's Brian Williams, WAS the most trusted newsman on television (50% like him, compared to under 25% for the anchors of CBS and ABC's broadcasts).

Now he's been suspended, without pay, for six months.

It's possible it could be permanent, if NBC discovers he made a habit of "embellishing" the truth, and making himself seem more important than he is, and more involved in "field" reporting than he was.

But what brought him down?

SOCIAL MEDIA. Read this:

If Brian Williams wasn't so egocentric and stupid as to have a fucking FARCEBOOK page, some obscure pilot could've raged on his own page all he wanted and nobody would've noticed or cared.

Similarly, Bill Cosby was taken down because a minor stand-up comic shouted an insult about him that went 'viral' on YouTube. The Cosby stories had been around for years, but NOW everybody knew because of social-disease media.

The other day, a redneck asshole named Chipper Jones, fucked himself on Twitter by tweeting that the Sandy Hook murder of 20 children was "A HOAX!" He was a fairly respected retired baseball star till then. So, social media can do you in if somebody leaves something on your Farcebook page, or if you're stupid enough to kneejerk a moronic statement on your Twitter page.

Of course, you can leave messages on tons of Farcebook pages of famous people and organizations, and NEVER get any attention even if you have something important to say. But don't tell Brian Williams that! His "I was in a helicopter that got shot down" yarn, which he's told for 10 years, got...SHOT DOWN.

In the old days, almost any shit a celebrity said was treated as the pure gospel. You simply didn't question it. Raymond Burr told reporters his wife and child died, and in his grief and trauma, he never re-married. Actually, he was gay. Nobody bothered to demand to see his wife and child's obit, or press him on where they were buried. If he was around now, and tried that story, social media would be all over him, along with the Find-a-Grave website and dozens of others.

For the next six months, Brian Williams won't have much to do.

Somehow, I don't think he'll be spending it conversing with his FARCEBOOK "friends."