Brian Williams False Memory Report
I chose news anchor Brian Williams false memory report claiming that there was a threat to his life when his helicopter had come under fire in an Iraqi war zone and it was shot down in 2003. In the case of Brian Williams, that misleading information may have been in the form of seeing the footage of him and his film crew examining the damage to the helicopter that was hit and seeing it repeatedly. According to researchers about journalists, false and flawed memory suggests that journalists must feel the pressure of harsh penalties for ethics violations so that they will work hard to disallow any natural disposition to let their guard down and not carefully check the accuracy of their memories. They also stated that human decision making and
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He acknowledged that he had been wrong in his reports and that he blamed his mistake to the fog of memory over 12 years that made him conflate his memories. Williams denied intentional wrongdoing and he was not aboard the downed helicopter, as he had repeatedly misreported. Rather, he was on a helicopter that was following the downed helicopter by half an hour. He denied intentional wrongdoing, "I would not have chosen to make this mistake stating that he didn’t know what screwed up in his mind that caused him to unite one aircraft with another. Nevertheless, memory experts assure us that reporters and anchors don't record events in their brains the way video cameras do, with complete digital details stored on hard drives. On the contrary, humans record events in their brains by imprecise associations in scattered locations, often in condensed form, leaving out many incidental details. Research findings have indeed shown that memories can be completely "false," as well as "implanted" by suggestions, leading to false memories that can become ever more enhanced with time. There has not been any shown research shown that people like Williams and others lack a capacity to improve or relax their ability to recall memories accurately. Memory science states that it's nearly impossible to distinguish an honest mistake from a deliberate deception. A pattern of repeated exaggerations about different events, documentary evidence from independent sources that Williams knew what he was saying untrue, would be more compelling evidence against the false memory explanation. Even if his errors are just casualties of a faulty memory, they still demonstrate an embarrassing lack of diligence. “Memory is susceptible to contamination and
He acknowledged that he had been wrong in his reports and that he blamed his mistake to the fog of memory over 12 years that made him conflate his memories. Williams denied intentional wrongdoing and he was not aboard the downed helicopter, as he had repeatedly misreported. Rather, he was on a helicopter that was following the downed helicopter by half an hour. He denied intentional wrongdoing, "I would not have chosen to make this mistake stating that he didn’t know what screwed up in his mind that caused him to unite one aircraft with another. Nevertheless, memory experts assure us that reporters and anchors don't record events in their brains the way video cameras do, with complete digital details stored on hard drives. On the contrary, humans record events in their brains by imprecise associations in scattered locations, often in condensed form, leaving out many incidental details. Research findings have indeed shown that memories can be completely "false," as well as "implanted" by suggestions, leading to false memories that can become ever more enhanced with time. There has not been any shown research shown that people like Williams and others lack a capacity to improve or relax their ability to recall memories accurately. Memory science states that it's nearly impossible to distinguish an honest mistake from a deliberate deception. A pattern of repeated exaggerations about different events, documentary evidence from independent sources that Williams knew what he was saying untrue, would be more compelling evidence against the false memory explanation. Even if his errors are just casualties of a faulty memory, they still demonstrate an embarrassing lack of diligence. “Memory is susceptible to contamination and