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OMG[edit]

What I'm missing in this article is secondary sources criticizing the tedious repetition of the phrase "our lead-off panel on a ____ night". Surely I'm not the only one who's sick of it. Drmies (talk) 03:06, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done Request forwarded to H. Lawrence Culp, Jr., Chairman of GE. O3000 (talk) 11:34, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy section[edit]

WP style is to not have Controversy sections. There should not be a ghetto for all the negative or embarrassing things about the subject. This text needs to be merged into the main history. Ashmoo (talk) 15:04, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong. Themanoflaw049 (talk) 04:00, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable sources for one million dollars quote[edit]

This quote has been repeatedly added to the article, but then removed due to lack of any reliable source. Here are some reliable sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/06/msnbc-suggests-that-america-has-population-327/

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/03/06/us/ap-not-real-news.html

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/06/msnbc/bad-math-msnbc-bloombergs-ad-spending-wasnt-enough/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-williams-math-michael-bloomberg_n_5e627335c5b647a5bd314e05

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/486288-brian-williams-nyts-gay-roasted-over-math-flub-saddest-clip-in-tv-history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/msnbc-bloomberg-error-brian-williams-mara-gay-a9383741.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/brian-williams-and-ny-times-staffer-fail-spectacularly-at-math-using-bloomberg-tweet

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bloomberg-political-ads/

https://theweek.com/speedreads/900409/brian-williams-blindly-furthers-false-claim-mike-bloomberg-couldve-given-every-american-1-million

https://www.newsweek.com/brian-williams-mara-gay-nyt-bloomberg-math-wrong-1490953

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/msnbc-math-mike-bloomberg-one-million-dollars

https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-bloomberg-couldnt-give-every-american-1-million-2020-3

Also of note, to put this in context:

1) Mekita Rivas, the author of the tweet that Williams quoted and then agreed with, is a freeelance writer who has has been published by the Washington Post.

2) Mara Gay. the New York Times editorial board member who appeared on air with Williams, said of the tweet, "It's true."

3) Politifact rated it as "pants on fire."

4) Huffington Post called it a "mortifying math blunder."

5) The Hill quoted Sven Henrich as calling it "the saddest clip in TV history."

6) The Daily Beast said they "Fail Spectacularly at Math."

208.89.33.29 (talk) 16:56, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And later corrected it. Errors in journalism are extremely common. When they aren't corrected, that is a problem. For entry in an encyclopedia, there must be some long term significance. O3000 (talk) 17:05, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This was more than just a math error. This mistake was indicative of a childish worldview held by people like Bernie Sanders, Mara Gray, and Brian Williams that if someone as wealthy as Michael Bloomberg would just share a little bit of his wealth with the rest of us, everyone in America could be made rich. It forms the basis of their economic outlook which they then confidently share with the rest of us without realizing how shallow and mistaken it truly is. And it goes to the heart of the notion that our nation's media talking heads aren't particularly intelligent to begin with. But I'm not surprised that Williams and Gay can both find plenty of Wikipedia editors who will gladly minimize the stupidity of their utterance by trying to pass it off as just a harmless error that was later corrected. 104.174.245.161 (talk) 07:15, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]