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⑴ Ousted NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams began his apology tour on Friday,
saying on the “Today” show that he “got it wrong” when he told exaggerated stories
about his reporting but declining to say he lied.
Williams, 56, was suspended by NBC for six months in February after he said on
“Nightly News” that the military helicopter he was traveling in at the start of the Iraq
War in 2003 was damaged by rocket fire. In fact, it had not been, and Williams was
taken to task by American veterans who were eyewitnesses to the events Williams
described.
The episode triggered an explosion of reporting about Williams’s characterizations of
his other reporting exploits. News articles turned up multiple instances in which he
exaggerated or embellished his role.
NBC on Thursday said Williams would return to the air, but has been reassigned to
MSNBC, the network’s little-watched cable channel, and will serve in a vaguely defined
role as a breaking-news anchor.(25 分)