{"id":65199,"date":"2015-02-11T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65199"},"modified":"2015-02-11T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:37:17","slug":"nbc-suspends-williams-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65199","title":{"rendered":"NBC suspends Williams&#8217; 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65200\" style=\"width: 116px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/holtlester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65200\" alt=\"Lester Holt\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/holtlester.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lester Holt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New York\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0NBC News reports that it has suspended its chief anchor and managing editor Brian Williams immediately for six months without pay, forgoing the option of firing the embattled newsman for now due to his popularity and past work at the network.<\/p>\n<p>Williams took himself off the air Saturday after soldiers revealed that his account of being on a Chinook helicopter that went down during the U.S. invasion of Iraq was not true.<\/p>\n<p>Backlash against Williams, who also served as managing editor of the newscast, swiftly gained steam from soldiers on social media after a January 30, 2015 &#8220;Nightly News&#8221; segment in which Williams retold a version of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Lester Holt, who was tapped to fill in while Williams sat out, will continue to serve as substitute anchor of <i>NBC Nightly News<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0NBC News reports that it has suspended its chief anchor and managing editor Brian Williams immediately for six months without pay, forgoing the option of firing the embattled newsman for now due to his popularity and past work at the network. Williams took himself off the air Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65202,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65199\/revisions\/65202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}