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joining us now david zurawik. why did division go todefcon one? >> media loves snow.s soon as you say there is a big storm coming weather blog is through the roof. grocery stores make money. everybody gets ratings. they love it. and i've seen it more in the last five, six years. we see more and more warnings of huge storms coming that never come. and so this one is buried on new york, media capital. >> because manhattan is threatened, everybody was at an extra level of drama and interest? >> absolutely. somebody tweeted it's because the media is full of narcissists. of course. it's not a -- people in oklahoma have tornadoes to worry about. i grew up in wisconsin. 2 feet of snow is like, okay, we'll play hockey outside today. but not in new york. it's the end of the world. and then afterwards, i mean you have boston and connecticut and all those states in new england buried. and the headlines are well it's kind of a bust. >> forget about it. we're going about our business. the other thing, they can defend it journalistically because you're supposed to give people infor

. >> joining us now, sharyl attkisson, david zurawik and paul farhi. let me take a moment to update you on some exclusive details i reported last night on foxnews.com. brian williams stepped aside voluntarily. he was not prodded to do this by the nbc brass. there is no nbc internal investigation in to this matter. it's a fact gathering inquiry to help nbc answer questions. there won't be any report on his conduct. and he is considering an invitation to go on david letterman show where you saw that clip thursday to discuss this further. you've had a little experience flying on military aircraft. what is the magnitude of brian williams' mistake about iraq? >> it's a large mistake because unless you have been on so many missions and shot at so many times that maybe you've confused which mission on which you were shot at and which ones you weren't, you know. but what strikes me is an even larger glaring thing that a lot of other people know, too. the people who were with you know, the crew knows you weren't shot at. and the network who where you worked at