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Eugene

(62,767 posts)
Sun May 31, 2015, 12:50 PM May 2015

NBC trying to keep Brian Williams - but maybe not as 'Nightly News' anchor

Source: CNNMoney

NBC trying to keep Brian Williams - but maybe not as 'Nightly News' anchor

By Brian Stelter

Brian Williams may lose his seat as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News," but executives are looking for a way to keep him at the network in a new role.

Weeks of complex negotiations between Williams and NBC are not yet complete, according to sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

There are any number of possible outcomes. Several of the sources said Williams could end up leaving NBC altogether following a financial settlement.

But another possibility, and the one advanced in recent discussions, involves a new role for Williams.

Andy Lack, the chairman of NBC News, has been a proponent of this outcome.

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CNNMoney (New York) May 31, 2015: 11:41 AM ET


Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/31/media/brian-williams-nbc-future/
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NBC trying to keep Brian Williams - but maybe not as 'Nightly News' anchor (Original Post) Eugene May 2015 OP
Let someone new get a chance Politicalboi May 2015 #1
What? For simply embellishing an otherwise true story? Buzz Clik May 2015 #2
It wasn't just one story. MADem May 2015 #3
They could hire him as a fact checker. Hoppy May 2015 #4
"Trying" to keep Brian Williams? Why? merrily Jul 2015 #5
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
1. Let someone new get a chance
Sun May 31, 2015, 12:57 PM
May 2015

Throw the bum out. He's made enough money he can't spend. Let him go to Faux.

 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
2. What? For simply embellishing an otherwise true story?
Sun May 31, 2015, 12:59 PM
May 2015

Holy crap.

He has lost the aura of objectivity, but to drop him into the Fox cesspool? Seems really harsh.

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