Brian Williams to return for pope coverage

He said he understood why people were upset, but that what has happened in the past has been “identified and torn apart by me“. A subsequent investigation found that he had lied at least 11 times about his reporting. Some of these moments were assembled into a clip reel shown to the small cadre of executives who decided his fate.

Broadcaster Brian Williams will return to the air Tuesday, easing into a far less prominent but familiar position of anchoring breaking news. “I don’t think anyone knows”, says Heyward, “including Brian”. “As such, the anchor’s identity is relatively unimportant, so not worth the turmoil of a controversial recall”.

After Gosk’s report, Williams said, “It’s going to be the week that was”, of the next few days in New York. “He did some reflecting”, he said. “It was a quiet and private time”.

The visit of Pope Francis will be the firs true coverage that Williams has been involved in since the lying scandal that led him to be suspended then canned from his “NBC Nightly News” job.

Something else will motivate Williams to keep his nose clean.

Prior to the big weekend ceremony it was revealed that Williams had spent part of his suspension driving around the country by himself and doing some self-reflection. Some of the staffers though privately are wondering about this situation, as some are wondering if Williams will end up tainting the MSNBC brand, but morale at the channel is low overall at this point. which extends beyond Williams. “Those kinds of whoppers were completely verboten and the penalty was execution”.

“Brian now has the chance to earn back everyone’s trust”, he said.

“Who knows?” he said.

Prediction: Lack gives Williams his own show in daytime in the latter half of next year; he’ll add an hour in primetime in 2017. Many feel his personality and experience make him well-suited to handle long spells of live TV-the floods, the plane crashes, the Pope visits and other joys and heartbreaks of the human spirit.

Williams had anchored NBC’s Nightly News for 11 years when he admitted to embellishing a story from when he covered Iraq in 2003.

But Williams’ return is attracting the most notice.

Wearing a navy blue suit jacket, light blue shirt and blue striped tie, Williams appeared rested as he began anchoring MSNBC’s coverage of Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. Indeed, the pontiff had not yet arrived on US soil when Williams returned to the air.

But that wasn’t the only possible embellishment uncovered in the aftermath, and one of the alleged incidents involves a meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1979.