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• Sports

Ravens cornerback Will Davis took an uncommon path to the NFL

Will Davis is an aspiring photographer. As he traveled around Europe this offseason, collecting stamps on his passport, the

By Jeff Zrebiec

Sep 6, 2016

• Opinion

Former CBS staffer Eric Engberg goes on CNN to rip Bill O'Reilly Falklands claims

Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg followed his blistering Facebook post on Saturday about Bill O'Reilly with an appearance Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

By David Zurawik

Feb 22, 2015

• Opinion

It's hard to remain a reporter sitting in the anchor's chair

NBC should put Brian Williams back on the street as a reporter to regain credibility, says Jules Witcover.

• Maryland

Credibility everything in news

• Maryland

Margaret Carlson: Stewart leaves void to fill

• Maryland

Zara Kessler: Stewart a greater loss to news

• Opinion

Brian Williams' lies are not equal to those of Fox 'News'

Brian Williams' lies are not equal to those of Fox 'News' -- they are worse, says Leonard Pitts.

• Opinion

Iraq story cost Brian Williams his credibility

Brian Williams has destroyed his credibility as a journalist

• Baltimore City Paper

Mr. Wrong: Taking a big hot take on a flat screen

• Opinion

Brian Williams' fib

The confession of NBC news anchor Brian Williams that he lied — or as he put it "conflated" — about being aboard an Army helicopter shot down in Iraq in 2003 has revived the issue of a prominent television journalist's credibility, especially one sitting almost as an icon in one of today's coveted network anchor chairs.

By Jules Witcover

Feb 9, 2015

• Readers Respond

Brian Williams has put NBC's credibility on the line

Anchor Brian Williams put NBC's credibility on the line

• Opinion

Why the hole Brian Williams dug with his lies is deepening

I joined Sharyl Attkisson and Paul Farhi on Howie Kurtz's "Media Buzz" today to talk about the growing nightmare for Brain Willaims and NBC News since "Stars and Stripes" reported Wednesday on his lies about covering the the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

By David Zurawik

Feb 8, 2015

• Opinion

Watch this year's Super Bowl? No, thanks.

NFL's power over its broadcast outlets has gone too far

By David Zurawik

Jan 30, 2015

• Sports

John Harbaugh was top choice for Super Bowl coverage, NBC executive says

When NBC Sports executives began planning their Super Bowl XLIX pregame show before the season even began, Ravens coach John Harbaugh was their top choice as a guest analyst. The Ravens¿ 35-31 AFC divisional round loss to the New England Patriots was NBC¿s, and the Super Bowl viewers¿ gain.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 28, 2015

• TV

Leno: Too old to flirt with models, not too old for comedy

Former 'Tonight' show host considers the merits of appearing on Letterman

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jan 17, 2015

• Opinion

Michelle Butt leaving WBAL to head North Carolina station

Michelle Butt, news director at WBAL-TV and radio station WBAL-AM, is leaving to be president and general manager at WXII-TV, an NBC affiliate in North Carolina.

By David Zurawik

Jan 12, 2015

• Sports

NBC, Michaels, Collinsworth serve Goodell, not fans, in Ravens telecast

After another season of mainly singing the praises of Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and the NBC broadcast crew as the best in the business, I can¿t tell you how disappointed I was by their Saturday performance in telecasting the Ravens 35-31 loss to the New England Patriots.

By David Zurawik

Jan 10, 2015

• Sports

Just like Ravens, NBC raised its game to playoff level Saturday

The Baltimore Ravens were not the only team to raise its game to playoff level in beating the Pittsburgh Steelers 30-17 Saturday.

By David Zurawik

Jan 4, 2015

• Opinion

Biggest stories of 2014 didn't need traditional news outlets

Biggest stories of the year didn't need traditional news outlets

By David Zurawik

Dec 26, 2014

• Opinion

The hype is unbearable, but Lauer does solid interview with Janay Rice

The "Today" show hype of its conversation with Janay Rice is almost grotesque in its overkill, but the first parts of Matt Lauer's actual sit-down with the wife of the former Ravens running back and her mother was a respectable piece of morning show TV interviewing.

By David Zurawik

Dec 1, 2014

• Maryland

Bingeing on turkey, then the tube

• Opinion

From Nate Silver to Jay Carney, more election coverage, less insight

There is more media than ever covering American political life. And with each major election, the coverage seems to get worse ¿ or, at least, more confused and misguided.

By David Zurawik

Nov 5, 2014

• Opinion

Sunday night Ravens telecast not one of NBC's best

NBC's "Sunday Night Football" is the gold standard of NFL television, no doubt about it. But last night's telecast of the Ravens 43-23 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers was not one of the network's greatest performances.

By David Zurawik

Nov 3, 2014

• Opinion

Halfway through scandal-marred season, NFL TV ratings stay super-strong

One of the most remarkable stories in pop culture is the power of the NFL as TV entertainment.

By David Zurawik

Oct 31, 2014

• Opinion

Barry Levinson signs on with new Jennifer Lopez cop drama for NBC

Barry Levinson has signed on to direct the pilot and and serve as an executive producer on a new Jennifer Lopez police drama planned to air on NBC in 2015.

• Opinion

Big changes in store for CBS' NFL coverage this season

CBS is partnering with the NFL Network to do 16 games on Thursday nights, but the first eight on CBS are the game changers. Getting the rights to the Thursday night games didn't change everything for the network's sports division.

• Opinion

Chelsea Clinton declares victory and moves on from TV embarrassment at NBC

After playing at being a TV correspondent and doing some of the worst on-air network reporting I have seen in 30 years of writing about media, Chelsea Clinton is declaring victory and moving on, she told People magazine.

• Opinion

Final act of Emmy dominance by 'Breaking Bad' a landmark achievement

I love "Breaking Bad," and even I didn't think it would win as big as it did Monday night at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards.

• Television Industry

Emmy nominees stand tall, but NBC sells telecast short

David Zurawik: It's time for the Emmy Awards again, and I am excited and angry.

• Sports

Michael Phelps looks to regain winning form at Pan Pacific Championships

Michael Phelps will try to regain his winning form at the Pan Pacific Championships in Australia this week.

• Features

Smithsonian accepts archival material from Baltimore's LGBT community center

Old photographs, newspapers and other miscellaneous "gay pride ephemera" from the last half-century of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in Baltimore will be added on Tuesday to one of the nation's most esteemed museum collections.

• Laurel Leader

Disney's trip to Neverland is mid-summer musical treat

Performed by 33 talented actors ranging in age from 6 to 18 from all over the tri-county area, Laurel Mill Playhouse's summer youth production plays as sweetly in 2014 as the NBC-owned musical starring Mary Martin did to oldsters in its audience.

• Politics

Rawlings-Blake praises Baltimore police's restraint on 'Meet the Press'

Baltimore mayor says military equipment should be used only in emergencies

• Opinion

Robin Williams on NBC's 'Homicide' -- Here's my 1994 Sun review

In my Monday-night appreciation of Robin Williams, I wrote about a 1994 episode of NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street" in which the comedian delivered an outstanding dramatic performance.

• Opinion

The Nixon resignation at 40 [Commentary]

Nixon's biggest mistake was thinking he could get away with what other politicians had done, but forgetting that the rules are different for Republicans

• Opinion

Sean Hannity on Israel: A barometer on how silly, lost and shameless cable 'news' has become

I only have 2 million other better things to write about. But after 24 hours of waiting for someone else to unload on Sean Hannity, the Fox News host who defines political stooge, I have to say something.

• Football

Former Ravens quarterback Scott Mitchell to be on NBC's 'The Biggest Loser'

Former NFL quarterback Scott Mitchell, who started a pair of games for the Ravens in 1999 and had a 12-year NFL career, will be featured on NBC¿s ¿The Biggest Loser,¿ a show in which people try to lose weight under the supervision of personal trainers.

• Sports

Michael Phelps to test comeback form this week at U.S. Nationals

Though he has swum four events since his return to competition, Michael Phelps will gain a truer gauge of his form this week in California where he'll swim at U.S. Nationals.

• Opinion

Wendell Pierce on 'Ray Donovan,' Jon Voight and his 'personal trifecta'

There was Wendell Pierce last Sunday night, sitting at a bar, pounding down drink after drink and getting kind of emotional as he talked about how messed up things had gotten in his life.

• Maryland

Pop Essentials, July 24- July 30

• Opinion

A few words of praise for some of the reporters covering Israeli-Palestinian violence

From the first days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when I saw Ayman Mohyeldin and his NBC News crew under fire from police in Israel, I have been thinking how much we have come to to take TV reporters for granted in places like the Middle East.

• Opinion

Conflict over Gaza is one-sided [Letter]

Israeli bullying at the heart of current conflict

• Classical Music

Ben Folds' 'Orchestra Experience' tour includes BSO

Songwriter to perform his hits and some of his piano concerto

• Laurel Leader

Laurel City Council seeks answers from Boys and Girls Club

The Laurel City Council convened a special work session Thursday with the President of the Laurel Boys and Girls Club to address allegations surrounding the club's relationship with Laurel Prep Academy -- an after-school basketball program operated out of the club.

• Opinion

Al Jazeera America excels in covering killings of Middle East teens

The grisly discovery Monday of the bodies of three Israeli teens who had been abducted June 12 as they hitchhiked home from a West Bank settlement yeshiva set off a week of mounting violence in the region.

• Opinion

Valerie Jarrett interview shows how low 'Meet the Press' has sunk

Believe me, I didn't go looking in my Sunday morning TV viewing for more evidence of what a journalistically bankrupt operation NBC News had become.

• Maryland

Soccer gets boost in US from young, informed fans

Never mind that there were dozens of TV sets at the bar, many turned to pro wrestling, poker and bowling to provide background noise early one weekend morning. Jon Forget walked in, asked the bartender to change one set to soccer and got laughed out of the joint.

• Music Industry

Throwback Thursday, the top 10 songs this week in 1992 [Videos]

In the middle of July 1992, Bill Clinton accepted the democratic nomination for president, the TV show "Melrose Place" premiered on Fox and America loved the following songs, via Billboard's Hot 100 chart archive.

• Howard County

Home Free performance concludes Columbia Festival of the Arts

Billed as the first professional country a cappella band, Home Free performs on Saturday, June 28, at 8 p.m., at the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake.

• Maryland

North Korea's take on new US movie: "Act of war"