{"id":75377,"date":"2015-06-19T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=75377"},"modified":"2015-06-19T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T19:37:36","slug":"williams-re-assigned-to-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=75377","title":{"rendered":"Williams re-assigned to MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WilliamsBrian2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65066\" alt=\"WilliamsBrian2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WilliamsBrian2.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Brian Williams says he let his ego get the better of him in telling stories that exaggerated his role in reporting news stories.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The NBC anchorman, stripped of his role as &#8220;Nightly News&#8221; anchor and reassigned to MSNBC, broke his silence on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show Friday about the episodes that derailed his career. He said it came from a bad place inside of him, that it was &#8220;ego-driven, a desire to better my role in a story that I was already in.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He apologized and said he was a different man as a result.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Williams said the last several months have been &#8220;torture&#8221; as he read stories about his actions and realized he didn&#8217;t like the man that was being described.<\/p>\n<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>Williams interim replacement, Lester Holt has been named Williams&#8217; successor, anchoring the NBC-T.V. Networks, \u00a0&#8220;Nightly News,&#8221; program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Brian Williams says he let his ego get the better of him in telling stories that exaggerated his role in reporting news stories. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The NBC anchorman, stripped of his role as &#8220;Nightly News&#8221; anchor and reassigned to MSNBC, broke his silence on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75377","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=75377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75378,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75377\/revisions\/75378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}