NBC ends suspension of Brian Williams
Source: The Hill
The former “NBC Nightly News” anchor and managing editor — who was suspended without pay after he admitted in February that a story he recounted several times about coming under enemy fire while aboard a helicopter in Iraq was false — will begin his new position as an MSNBC breaking news anchor next month, CNN Money reported Tuesday.
An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed to ITK that Williams will be rejoining the network sometime in September, indicating no firm date has been set.
“I am fully aware of the second chance I have been given. I don’t intend to squander it,” Williams told Matt Lauer on the "Today" show in June.
That same month, veteran reporter Lester Holt was named as the replacement anchor of “Nightly News."
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in the evening spot. That's gotta be salt in Brian's wounds.
by Joe Concha
Good for Lester. And good for the Peacock, whose news division has been through its rockiest year in its history thanks to the Brian Williams debacle and the MSNBC meltdown. Holt was thought by many (including me) to simply be a placeholder until someone else with more appeal and pizazz could be lured to the position. Turns out audiences simply want someone they can trust without the bells and whistles. In the case of Holt, there’s not only credibility, but an intangible they don’t teach at Big Boy Anchor School:
The ability to make a story feel more important. It’s not something that can be quantified or really described. For Holt, it’s just something for that comes from being in the business for 19 years with CBS and another 15 with NBC. That’s experience very few have in a business that always tries to go younger, flashier and/or in pursuit the bigger “name”. Holt is now the first African-American to solo anchor a national nightly newscast in a full-time capacity.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/with-huge-ratings-wins-lately-lester-holt-shows-good-guys-can-finish-first/
I hope there is room where Brian's going,I've had this dream twice now and it ends up the same way.
There is this bus,strange looking bus with a weird bus driver wearing a funny hat, he opens the front door
as I am standing there in the cold and he says,sorry lady that it has to be this bus , I'm just paid to keep it rolling.
Then the door slams shut and the bus starts to roll. Than I wake up !
I think I might have been trumped !
