Brian Williams Suspended for Six Months

Looks like the brass at NBC, rather NBC News President, Deborah Turness, has suspended Brian Williams, NBC's "Nightly News" anchor since 2004, for six months without pay. Last week NBC announced it was "investigating" Williams' reporting while he was in Iraq and in other hot spots (to check for additional evidence of embellishing). It seemed Williams had the support of NBC higher-ups while he's been under scrutiny,   however Williams' suspension is "effective immediately".

 Lester Holt, anchor of Dateline, co-anchor of NBC's weekend edition of "Today" and NBC Nightly News, will continue to anchor in Williams' place for now. We hope Brian Williams can recover from this seemingly fall from grace.  Perhaps, while NBC is holding people accountable, the network should turn their attention to MSNBC, (the cable network is not under Turness) which is suffering from low ratings and needs a major shake-up!

Related: Brian Williams Calls Off 'Late Show' Appearance, Lester Holt Reads Brian Williams Statement on NBC 'Nightly News' Saturday Edition , NBC's Brian Williams, Under Fire, Takes A Few Days Off , January Another Down Month for 'MSNBC'

Comments

Post a Comment

Thank you for joining the conversation.

Popular posts from this blog

UPDATE: American Apparel Founder Finally Fired

Image
As reported in the LA Times, it seems American Apparel's CEO Dov Charney, while contesting his removal, wants to shake-up the company's board and management. Related: American Apparel Founder Finally Fired Dov Charney said he wants shake-up of American Apparel board http://t.co/smfdMFOOEB — ConversationCircle (@ConversationCir) June 23, 2014
Read more

Looks Like Kerry Washington Couldn't Fix SNL

Image
Reviews for Kerry Washington's appearance on SNL , considering Saturday Night Live was dealing with a very public issue concerning the lack of black females on the show, seems to have focused the diversity problem (like a laser) on the writing staff as well. Could diversity among the writing staff be the issue, too? Related: Kerry Washington to SNL Nov 2 ‘SNL’ lacks diversity in the cast, and in the writers’ room http://t.co/lR07xyQyNa — ConversationCircle (@ConversationCir) November 3, 2013
Read more

'Game of Thrones' Season 4 Is King

Image
Ratings At 9PM on April 6, a total of 6.6 million viewers (including us) were watching the often bloody and grisly "Game Of Thrones" season 4 premiere. This was GoT's most-watched episode  to date, and the most-watched episode of any HBO series since 2007. Season four of GoT was up 52% from season three's premiere. Another 1.6 million viewers watched the show at 11PM and 1AM. Bringing the Nielsen's ratings up to 8.2 million. HBO GO (where our members were able to get caught up) is expected to drive the numbers even higher. As we've stated before, we just wish GoT would pick up the pace just a little bit. Related: Games Of Thrones Back For Season 4 House Of Cards Welcomes Game Of Thrones Back
Read more