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Not even a week ago, Brian Williams was forced to apologize on air for a story he's told for years about a close-call on a helicopter mission in Iraq. And already the controversy has spawned...
In 2015, Williams was suspended by NBC for six months without pay, and replaced by Lester Holt, for the Iraq helicopter crash story. The scandal erupted when Williams claimed that a helicopter he was on during the Iraq War had been hit by enemy fire and forced down.
On February 7, Williams announced in a press release that he would take a brief absence from anchoring NBC Nightly News. Here’s what really happened, the false story that Williams told and...
In February, NBC News President Deborah Turness sent an e-mail to the staff of NBC News announcing that, effective immediately, Brian Williams was suspended without pay as managing editor and...
In February 2015, Williams was suspended by NBC News for six months for "misrepresent [ing] events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003 ". [2] . Four months after the incident came to light, the network removed him from NBC Nightly News permanently and reassigned him as the breaking news anchor for MSNBC. [3]
Brian Williams apologized Friday for saying “things that weren’t true” as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News. However, he claimed he wasn’t lying but had become egotistical...
Brian Williams, long-time anchor of NBC Nightly News, recanted on Wednesday a 12-year-old story that he was aboard a helicopter that was shot down by enemy fire during the Iraq War invasion in...