The difference is, Williams is a relatively harmless media flack who knocks off the nightly "news" for profit while the occupant in the White Hut can knock off millions of people and ruin the entire country in a hurry if he feels like it.
This entire charade is just another "Look! Squirrel!!" episode to distract us from what is really going on and what is really important.
Joseph Goebbels must be rolling over in his grave in envy.
Brian Williams is a competing news source to all those other outfits now trumpeting his scandal. It’s not his dishonesty they resent but his success.