Brian Williams Stepping Away From NBC Nightly News Amid Scandal

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brian-williams-stepping-away-nbc-771102 ^

[bryan999]

Brian Williams is stepping away from NBC Nightly News for several days.

The anchor sent a note to the show's staff, announcing that Lester Holt is replacing him this week. The news comes as the anchor is embroiled in a scandal surrounding his story about being a passenger in a helicopter that took fire in the Iraq War.

Williams' message can be seen, below.

"In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions.

"As Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News, I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days, and Lester Holt has kindly agreed to sit in for me to allow us to adequately deal with this issue. Upon my return, I will continue my career-long effort to be worthy of the trust of those who place their trust in us."

More to come...

[rawcatslyentist]

Hope Al get's the available job position!

[Moorings]

I don't understand how he admitted to the hoax now after all these years of sticking with it. What made him come clean?!

I wish the whole lot of them stepped away from news after admitting to bias, spin and lies.

[BigEdLB]

My son is having a piano lesson. I am on my ipod. When i can get to the pc same room as piano i have to do a photoshop of baron brian munchause. With the voyager probe as it departs the solar system

[BigEdLB]

My son is having a piano lesson. I am on my ipod. When i can get to the pc same room as piano i have to do a photoshop of baron brian munchause. With the voyager probe as it departs the solar system

[BigEdLB]

My son is having a piano lesson. I am on my ipod. When i can get to the pc same room as piano i have to do a photoshop of baron brian munchause. With the voyager probe as it departs the solar system

[biggredd1]

check soetoro williams birth certificate.

[jocon307]

And just after I thought his daughter was so good in Peter Pan. (No, I really did, I thought she was excellent, although many do not agree)

This thread needs the “well bye” Powers Boothe meme.

[Don Corleone]

Stepping away just sounds like a week vacation...?

On his salary of almost 27 thousand dollars per DAY he can afford it.

[dearolddad]

He thinks that after 3 days, everyone will forget.

Knowing the general stupidity of a large segment of the public he may just be right.

[x]

Brian Williams is stepping away from NBC Nightly News for several days.

Only temporarily?

I thought he'd end up on Girls with his daughter.

[LostInBayport]

He’d be more likely to surface as Hillary Clinton’s press secretary LOL.

I hear there is an opening on this show....

[tje]

There’s a seating opening up on The View.

[BluH2o]

Brian Williams is going follow Nancy Snyderman’s lead ... after she was caught breaking her Ebola quarantine. Make a convoluted apology then disappear for a month ... only to return as nothing happened.

[doug from upland]

[Steamburg]

He has shown he could fit in well at Hillary’s camp if he can just make up the stories to be about her instead of him.

[Paladin2]

General News just exited for the rear eschelon while under actual live fire..

[Political Junkie Too]

Upon my return...

A foregone conclusion? He's just playing possum for awhile? Out of sight, out of mind?

-PJ

[Beagle8U]

“Upon my return,”...I will clean out my desk and be escorted from the building.

[ransomnote]

I feel his message is prideful. It’s similar in tone to celebrities who lament they can have no privacy and their smallest errors become part of the nightly news. It’s almost as if he’s disappointed in the unreasable behavior of the public.

[TomServo]

NBC alumnus Tommy Flanagan approves.