On Wednesday, “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams recanted an account he had given of being aboard a helicopter as it was struck down by RPG fire during the Iraq war in 2003.
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams said in an interview with Stars & Stripes, before apologizing live on air. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”
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“Memory is either right or it is wrong and we are in the business of being right,” he said on “New Day,” adding that the online media outlets are “starting to eat him alive.”
According to a search done using TVEyes, MSNBC did not mention the story until 10:49 a.m. Wednesday, with anchor Jose Diaz-Balart echoing Williams’ words and rolling footage of his apology from the night before.
