NBC(News) Producer Dies in NYC Building Fall

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Forbes.com

A former Emmy-winning television producer who worked with Tom Brokaw at NBC News died Monday after falling from his apartment building, police said.

Police initially reported that the producer, Eric R. Wishnie, was hit by a vehicle that fled the scene, but later they said they had located a witness who saw him as he fell from an adjacent building. The medical examiner's office said it had scheduled an autopsy.

NBC News President Steve Capus said in a statement that Wishnie, 44, was "an enormously talented former senior producer at NBC News, who had a hand in some of the most monumental and memorable news stories of our time."

Wishnie produced numerous stories for Brokaw in the Middle East, along with coverage of the Olympic Games in Athens, Sydney and Atlanta and the first North American interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He was found in the street in Greenwich Village at about 3 a.m. Monday, and he died two hours later at a hospital, NBC said.



Read more: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/30/ap3968117.html

[havocmom]

1. Pass the tin foil?

Hmmm, Brokaw's office got one of those anthrax packages a few years ago.

Now this?

Yep, please pass the tin foil. :tinfoilhat:

[Judi Lynn]

6. That's right. Forgot. Thanks for the reminder.

[aquart]

14. Those are quite stylish.

[tblue37]

28. Mmmmmm--Hershey's kisses. n/t

[bobthedrummer]

7. Here's something about the history of US anthrax and other biological agents

that isn't tinfoil at all, havocmom, from a parent thread that might interest many

This post documents the roles that University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologists Edwin Fred and Ira L. Baldwin played in CBW.

"Some more not so random links regarding the OP subject line"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=186x21683#21698

Frank Olson was a student of Ira Baldwin he also "fell" to his death in NYC (a lot of prominent people associated with black operations were also at UW Madison-that goes beyond coincidence)

"Wisconsin and some black operations"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=186x21683#21699

[havocmom]

30. Think back a bit and one will notice a decided difference in Brokaw's

ah, enthusiasum about doing news as opposed to his nice, fluffy stuff in recent years. I believe an assistant of his contracted anthrax from that package to his office.

I do not believe they ever made an arrest.

And there seems to be a lot of people in positions to know things who fall out of windows and such.

Thanks for the back-up, bob. Always good to have you around for good links.

[fed-up]

24. didn't a reporter? fall from a window in San Jose a year or two ago??? nt

[flyarm]

2. i want in on the tin foil as well!! maybe we could share a box of it!! well then again

i may need the whole box myself..i need a big tin foil hat on this one!!

fly

[Decruiter]

15. We're ordering up a pallet. We'll share with friends and neighbors of course.

There was another prominent journalist or banker just a couple of years back that had a fall.

I'm soooo tired of this &*&%#@!

Damned them all.

[stlsaxman]

20. and how about a few hundred cipro to go with that tinfoil...

never be too safe, huh?


edited for spelling

[BrightKnight]

52. extra thick non-stick

[kestrel91316]

59. I reuse tinfoil and then when it's falling apart I recycle it.

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Yes, but he produced the first interview of Pooty Poot

I've looked into his soul and know he's a good guy. (Just don't eat any sushi should he offer it to you.(

(I'll take some of that tinfoil now.)

[John Q. Citizen]

4. Still too early to go tin foil. i need details, damn it more details.

Of course the fleeing hit and run vehicle changed to a fall from the building story is pretty tantalizing.

[Usrename]

11. Here's the obligatory excerpt from the CIA assassination manual.

This stuff cannot be repeated too often (emphasis mine):

>>

The following document is an instructional guide on assassination found among the CIA's training files for "Operation PB Success" -- the agency's covert 1954 operation that overthrew the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in June 1954. The CIA released it to the public on May 23, 1997, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

>>


A STUDY OF ASSASSINATION

>>



>>

2. Accidents.

For secret assassination, either simple or chase, the contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated.

The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. Elevator shafts, stair wells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. Bridge falls into water are not reliable. In simple cases a private meeting with the subject may be arranged at a properly-cased location. The act may be executed by sudden, vigorous of the ankles, tipping the subject over the edge. If the assassin immediately sets up an outcry, playing the "horrified witness", no alibi or surreptitious withdrawal is necessary. In chase cases it will usually be necessary to stun or drug the subject before dropping him. Care is required to insure that no wound or condition not attributable to the fall is discernible after death.

>>

http://www.anusha.com/ciastudy.htm

Lots of folks are falling to their deaths these days.

[John Q. Citizen]

41. I like the music at the linked site. I also like the straight forward

and common sense approach to assassination. Lot's of good tips and I learned a lot.

For instance, if someone calls me up and wants to meet me about the package I found with evidence implicating covert CIA officials in the 9/11 attacks, don't meet them upstairs at the hotel room, meet them in the well lighted ground floor lobby.

Plus if one always assumes they are the target of an assasination attempt, it, by definition, makes the job harder to do, just in case.

[unkachuck]

50. I wonder....

....why Alexander Litvinenko didn't suffer a nasty fall?....

[CTyankee]

25. Sounds like the basis for a Hitchcock movie. Reminds me of the opening shot of "Vertigo."

And the bizarre ending.

If this isn't the stuff of a good movie, I don't know what is!

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. "enormously talented former senior producer"

I wonder how something like that is measured.

[defendandprotect]

8. What was he working on? Will it be "Coincidence Theory" . . . ?

Just want to mention that we have criminal law based on CONSPIRACY . . . .
So it's naive to suggest that it doesn't happen in America --

Meanwhile, our founders were quite suspicious of possible CONSPIRACY . . .

quote In the (Constitutional) convention George Mason argued that the President might use his pardoning power to "pardon crimes which were advised by himself" or, before indictment or conviction, "to stop inquiry and prevent detection." James Madison responded:

If the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty... unquote

So . . . let's act like grownups and admit that, indeed, we do have CONSPIRACY in America --
our founders understood that -- and they understood that we needed to take action when CONSPIRACY
was happening at the highest levels of our government.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

9. Yeah, that's right...

...fell out of a building -- happens all the time -- now move along you gawking tinfoil bastards!

[EFerrari]

55. Who do you have to be to believe this story?

That's what gets me. Not the act itself -- there is evil in the world -- but the denial.

[coffeenap]

10. Look at what his journalist wife has covered:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3949008/

[cui bono]

12. And notice how they repeated it all to make sure everyone knew.

[bonito]

23. All here also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Fratangelo

[bobthedrummer]

27. You got it, coffenap. Yep.

[havocmom]

31. OMG. Do they have children? She may have just recieved a SERIOUS message.

Anybody who doubts the junta and its henchmen would not stoop to murder to get what they want needs to take another look at the toll in Iraq (and not just our troops)

There is NOTHING beyond these people.

Nothing.

[mod mom]

38. Ok tinfoil here too. (someone should see if Carlyle has cornered the aluminum market)

[Garbo 2004]

13. He left NBC last year, perhaps lost his job there, & his wife had recently moved out.

http://www.nysun.com/article/59482
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/am-producer0731,0,5713039.story

[mod mom]

39. You should have SHOUTED this so others would read this

[shance]

16. How many people fall from their apartment building?

When they are not 'pushed'?

[ClintonTyree]

18. A lot....

people taking swan dives from bridges, buildings, cliffs etc. is pretty common. Some members of Native American tribes used to do use that particular method when they knew their lives were nearing the end.
This guy sounds like he had some personal problems recently. I think there's way too much tin-foil around here at times. Of course that isn't to say sometimes people ARE out to get you. ;)
I think as time goes on we'll find that he had some serious problems and a nose dive from his apartment building appeared to be a viable solution to those problems. :shrug: But hey, what the hell do I know?

[LisaL]

19. That's not exactly "falling out" of the apartment either.

I don't think many people truly just fall out of the apartment by pure accident.

[Marnieworld]

35. I know. I thought this would be a thread feeling bad that he was suicidal

That's more often the case than not if someone "falls" from a building. Suicide itself is a lot more common than people realize (unless it touches them as it has for me).

[smirkymonkey]

56. I know a number of people who knew him quite well.

Unfortunately, he struggled with severe depression and other problems that I won't go into. The consensus among those who knew him was that he took his own life.

There is always a slight chance of foul play, but in this case, I think we actually are going a little overboard on the tinfoil.

[Garbo 2004]

40. Those who commit suicide....

"An Emmy-winning TV news producer who lost his job with NBC because of pills and booze plummeted to his death yesterday from a West Village rooftop, police and media sources said.

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams dedicated last night's show to Eric Wishnie, a longtime network news employee whose 10-year marriage to "Dateline" correspondent Dawn Fratangelo was in shambles."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/07/31/2007-07-31_producers_tragic_end-4.html

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. How many news related falling-from-building incidents does that make?

There was one that fell out of a New York Times building wasn't there?

[liberal N proud]

21. He FELL from his apartment?

[Tesha]

22. He went "Waydowntown", huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown



Tesha

[Virginia Dare]

26. Did he have a picture of Poppy in his pocket?...n/t

[RFKJrNews]

29. Interesting...

So his wife reported the story of how the big American banks helped fund Hitler's rise to power?

That's really kind of interesting considering how the President's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was investigated for his directorship of both Union Bank of New York and the Hamburg-America Line, a company that provided Nazi propaganda.

"How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html

"Bush's Bank Seized by gov't for Trading with The Enemy, 1942"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/101903I.shtml

Even Fox News admits it...

"Documents: Bush's grandfather directed bank tied to Nazis"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100474,00.html

"Bush Family Funded Hitler"
http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bushfamilyfundedhitler.htm
"Bush-Nazi Dealings continued Until 1951" (LONG AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER!)
http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bushnazidealingscontinueduntil1951.htm

NBC's groundbreaking coverage of this story really brought this troubling information into the mainstream discourse. And it is STILL one of the underreported stories in American media during the Bush presidency.

Apparently, the President and his family are still rather touchy about this subject. Makes me wonder if NBC was planning a new feature story with the headline: "ATTENTION AMERICA! THE BUSHES ARE NAZIS!"

So I guess we're all tinfoil hats now...

[havocmom]

32. Welcome to DU, RFKin2008

Looking forward to reading much more from you.

Thanks for the links.

Good to get as many resources out there for people as we can.

:thumbsup:

[Virginia Dare]

33. Dead men tell no tales, so they say...

welcome to DU!

[bobthedrummer]

34. Welcome to DU, RFKin2008.

It isn't tinfoil-it's something from Alcoa.

[RFKJrNews]

46. Thanks for the welcome, ya'll

It's good to be here at DU, and so refreshing to see such an open-minded exchange of views! Hell of a lot of smart folks `round here.

I'm sure you will all do your homework and read the links I posted above about the Bush Crime Family and their well-documented Nazi ties.

Then you will no longer have to wonder what our country is coming to and why. Brownshirts and brickbats. Waging war for world domination. Oppression. Corporatism. FASCISM!

So, now that you're good and mad (you should be), take a positive step towards real leadership and please SIGN THE PETITION to Draft Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for President. You can do it here: http://RFKin2008.com

Oh, and please do it QUICK before somebody pushes me out of a window!

[daleo]

36. I wonder if he knew much about election rigging?

This may have been the ultimate "exit poll" fix.

[Timmy5835]

37. Guys.....Guys....

The guy was fired from his NBC job because he had a drug and alcohol problem and had a failed marrage and depression problems. I think I'd fall from my roof too.

[bobthedrummer]

42. Timmy5835 your post resembles the kind of reframing found in this article

"Reframing Perception-Space (P-space): A Quick Overview of a Unifying Concept" by Col. Michael McKim USAFR (ret)
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc/reframing-p-space.htm

The linked article clearly reflects the influence of, among other things, the First Earth Battalion cult in the US military and the intelligence community and has been adapted by perception management professionals.

Or we could utilize the old "APA six key words" approach: fired, drug, alcohol, depression, failed, marriage and apply a little humanistic relativism.

Respectfully, that's just my opinion though. I could certainly be wrong about a few things when I read your post and didn't see a

:sarcasm: thing.

Yes, I could be wrong and my friends in this thread could all be wrong. And what we've been DUing over the years by looking for answers and the truth regardless of what is reported has led to certain approaches based on what we've learned.

[coffeenap]

43. Yes, but did he have the problems because he was haunted,

or hunted, or threatened? Or was his wife? I am not a tin foil type, but this could be real.

[shance]

44. In reality, isn't that what they always say?

about people that 'fall' from buildings?

[BlueInPhilly]

45. RIP

Nothing here, moving on.

The guy was depressed, he lost his job and then his wife, he jumped. The End.

Prayers for him and his family.

[RamboLiberal]

47. Looks like suicide or a drunken fall

An Emmy-winning TV news producer who lost his job with NBC because of pills and booze plummeted to his death yesterday from a West Village rooftop, police and media sources said.

Police said they were looking into whether he fell or jumped from the three-story building at 444 Sixth Ave. Foul play was not suspected. Inside his apartment, cops found a dozen vodka bottles, a multitude of empty pill bottles and mail that hadn't been opened for months.

In September 2006, Wishnie was either fired or forced to resign from NBC after his bosses found out he was addicted to alcohol and pain pills, media sources said. Fratangelo, his estranged wife, could not be reached for comment.

An employee at a nearby wine shop said Wishnie had been a regular customer until about a month ago, when he told the newsman he would no longer sell him alcohol.

"He looked really weak like he was giving up on everything," the store employee said. "I told him he looked terrible. He said, 'Thanks for your concern.'"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/07/31/2007-07-31_producers_tragic_end-4.html

[Skittles]

51. either way, it looks like addictions killed him

so very sad

[Raine]

48. Very BIZARRE and

suspicious. :tinfoilhat:

[goforit]

49. This group never stops do they?

[bobthedrummer]

53. .

[bobthedrummer]

54. .

[SleeplessinSoCal]

57. What Freepers are saying...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874000/posts

[Grandrose]

58. Some of us refuse to contaminate our keyboard or mouse and...

go anywhere near freeperville! No way, never happen...so would you be so kind as to give a synopsis? Thank you very much! :hi:

[lovuian]

60. is this about the Anthrax to Tom

Amazing how they are tidying up loose ends