NBC New Anchor Brian Williams

Williams on bloggers:

You're going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I'm up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn't left the efficiency apartment in two years" — Brian Williams, anchor of the "NBC Nightly News," speaking before New York University journalism students on the challenges traditional journalism faces from online media.
Crooks and Liars

It never occured to Williams that ole Vinny might be doing some really solid research. You know, the type of research that allowed bloggers to know there were no WMDs in Iraq by the end of 2002, that the Niger do ents were forgeries by October 2002, that the invasion of Iraq had already been planned in 2000, that it was going to be bungled into an occupation just like Vietnam and with the same sad progression and eventual outcome, and that Iraq was probably the only Islamic country that wasn't harboring Al Quaeda trained terrorists.

These are all things Mr. Williams didn't know. He still doesn't know some of them, apparently.

This what Williams means by credentials:

"I have illustrous, blowdried hair!" "Look at my suit!" "These shoes cost more than you make in a year!" "Doesn't a Rolex MEAN anything to anyone anymore?!?"