Brian Williams will likely lose his anchor chair
Source: Page Six
A decision about Brian Williams fate at NBC could come as early as this week and it looks like the embattled anchor wont be returning to NBC Nightly News.
Sources tell Page Six that Williams will likely lose his anchor chair following the lengthy internal investigation into his alleged tall tales.
But NBC brass led by NBCUniversal CEO and president Steve Burke and NBC News chairman Andy Lack have been looking for a way to keep him at the network in a different, yet-to-be-agreed-upon role. One source told us, Brians six-month suspension is over in early August, and NBC chiefs are under pressure to come up with a solution. The talks are complicated and are ongoing, and there has not yet been a deal. But it is likely he wont be back in the Nightly anchor chair. A decision could be made as early as this week, if all sides can reach an agreement.
Industry insiders said NBC News staff, led by Lack, have been encouraged to think of alternative roles for Williams.
Read more: http://pagesix.com/2015/06/07/nbc-may-decide-brian-williams-future-this-week/
yorgatron
(2,289 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,041 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)who 'got it wrong' ONE time i.e. his imagination and his memory leap-frogged into a self-serving delusion which he passed off as "news"... ok I get that.
And questions can be raised like "if he got THAT so wrong, what other delusions did he pass off as news? Any? If there were other leaps into delusion that he aired as news, I haven't seen them, and I think that would have surfaced by now.
So I think the guy deserves his job back.. out and out firing him is a huge over-reaction. I hope he sues their asses off.
dballance
(5,756 posts)One too many times.
Or Phil Donohue.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)I do see these as different in an important way though: Brian was misremembering an intense "fog of war" moment for him, by embellishing it. Rather and Donahue got fired for publicly speaking out against the Iraq war.
You're right though that them getting fired for that is (in a way) even more egregious.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)His helo didn't come under fire, fact is that none of the birds in his flight came under fire that day, they weren't in danger where they set down, they landed among a US armored unit.
Lying Brian deserves to lose his job.
BTW, he also lied about his Katrina experience.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)The guy already got a 6 month suspension. That should have been enough for NBC to make their
point, get their pound of flesh ...plus it's given Williams some time to reflect and recalibrate.
I'm going to miss him. (well, I already miss him, since he has been off the air for 4 months already.
Clearly we disagree on this, which is cool with me.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)in the news, my vitriol stems from the fact that I've come under hostile ground fire numerous times while driving a bird
and it bugs the crap out of me when someone lies about that kind of thing.
I realize that others have a difference of opinions on this, and that's also cool with me, I just don't like news anchors lying about their experience in a combat zone.
NJCher
(35,843 posts)It's kinda' sad, really. For whatever reason, he didn't feel he measured up to the kinds of experiences you went through, so he felt he had to lie or exaggerate it. That wouldn't make me mad, it would make me feel kind of sorry for him.
However, how sorry can you feel for someone who makes something like 10 million a year. Isn't that what his contract is?
I liked him as a news anchor a lot, but I found out over the last few months that I like Lester better. Lester does a really great job, totally professional, and he's not hard to look at, either.
Cher
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)I hope he takes his horrible daughter with him. I'm not sure why anyone expects actual truth from mainstream news, however.
randys1
(16,286 posts)He embarrassed the bush's way back when
Karl Rove planting that document on his team was easy to do.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)the thing is he was in a helicopter a the time and no doubt, it was also a traumatic experience. unlike that other "news" personality on a faux channel who constructed out and out lies.
it is sad. he is a gracious person and i hope mr. williams can put all of this behind him and create something so magnificent with the rest of his life, he is vindicated.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)None of the birds in his flight took any ground fire that day, when those birds set down, they were among a US Armored unit for the night, so they were relatively safe.
Sorry, but Lying Brian deserves to lose his job.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)allegedly he's telling them he'll sue them if they renege on it.
They can honor the terms of the contract, but typically, these things are written such that they do not need to continue putting him out there as the news anchor, but that instead, they can put him in a correspondent position, or perhaps even as some kind of lower level person - but how humiliating would that be? I can't see him agreeing to do something like that.
If they want him out, they can probably do it relatively cheap.
Chalco
(1,312 posts)I don't give a hoot about his stories about his own life.
He's such an amiable, smart guy. I wish him the best.
tanglefoot
(202 posts)Far too often, the serious offenders are rewarded instead.
rurallib
(62,492 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)He would be perfect for the John Daly role
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)ABC News seems to be the last place. Dan Rather is still my go to guy though , too bad he's not in news anymore. NBC has little know how on how to run a news organization anyway.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Good riddance.
Next up propagandist Richard Engel
CTyankee
(63,932 posts)I've never found him off base with his assessment on the ground. I figure he knows more about some situations than I could know...
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)You'd realize he's as full of lies as Williams. Williams lied for his own ego, Engel does it to get us to bomb a country.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)LuckyLib
(6,823 posts)Comcast. Williams rose to celebrity status because of the dysfunction of the company, and his BS and self-aggrandizement only underscores the idiocy and vacuous nature of network television news.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/nbc-news-brian-williams-scandal-comcast
NJCher
(35,843 posts)Looks like some good night time reading! Thanks for posting this link.
Cher
Rex
(65,616 posts)Oh wait...Foxnews claims to be an entertainment channel, so why do they get press seats again?
Aristus
(66,531 posts)Possible headline.
Kaleva
(36,410 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Sprael
(15 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Ilsa
(61,721 posts)I think Holt does a great job.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)Fuck Network News. If they had any integrity, they'd make him Chief of News Operations. And I really don't "get" all the folks rooting for Brian because he is a good guy. Total BS. He let a lot of good folks down, pulling that shit. And fuck Page 6!
BROOKLYNITE, why would you ever link to the NYPOST? This ain't my DU.