Brian Williams To Take Temporary Leave From Nightly News

Brian Williams is going to take a brief absence from the NBC “Nightly News” broadcast, he said in a press release Saturday. The move follows Williams’ admission that he was not actually aboard a helicopter in Iraq that was shot down by enemy fire in 2003, as he had previously said.

In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions.

The Huffington Post