::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

Gen. Lloyd Austin was incommunicado for several days related to a medical emergency. This does not mean he was AWOL. Any media or press organization that has reported he was AWOL should issue a retraction immediately. AWOL, or being away without leave, denotes that he was missing. Social media companies should flag such reporting for misinformation. The level of admission - ICU- suggests that he may not have been capable of responding. It is important to keep in mind that his was not a normal admission. The timeframe is set during the holiday break and according to the DOD Web site Austin had no public events scheduled on the dates in question. We, the press, nor the public do not know Gen. Austin's frame of mind or physical condition under than to surmise that a cancer diagnosis would be disconcerting for him and his family and require a period of mental adjustment. He also had a urine infections doctors later revealed. It appears that all things considered, Austin replied ...

buzzz worthy. . . Yesterday was Bobby Brown's forty sixth birthday and he spent it at his daughter's bedside where he has stayed since she was revived from drowning last Saturday, January 31. Over the last week since Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unresponsive in the bath tub of her Georgia home, the media has struggled to get a handle on her exact condition.  On Thursday, Bobby Brown issued another statement  amid rumors that their  family is preparing to say good-bye to his daughter, following reports that she is on life support.  Although it has been widely reported that doctors  have done all they could, through  his attorney Bobby Brown released the following statement to the Atlanta Journal Constitution: “If we issued a statement every time the media published a false report regarding this matter, that’s all we would be doing 24 hours a day. This is false, just as is the vast majority of the other reporting that is c...