Four months later, Brian Williams apologizes on NBC
Brian Williams is going on tour. No, not through a combat zone to fly in a helicopter that’s actually under fire. He’s going on a tour to apologize for telling that untrue story.
For the first time since February, the suspended NBC news anchor who repeatedly told a false story about being a passenger in a helicopter that came under fire in Iraq in 2003, is meeting with colleagues to apologize for his inaccurate statements, according to CNN.
It’s been dubbed an “apology tour,’’ and kicked off with Williams’s former “NBC Nightly News’’ staffers on Thursday. He officially won’t be returning to the program, but will remain within the company to anchor breaking news coverage and special reports on MSNBC.
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A previously-recorded interview with Matt Lauer aired Friday morning as another factor to Williams’s imagine rehabilitation.
“I own up to this, and I had to go through and see, and try to figure out how it happened,’’ he told Lauer. “I have always treated words very carefully.’’
Williams also went to Washington to meet with staffers at the NBC bureau there on Thursday evening. According to CNN, “Some well-known NBC journalists in the Washington bureau are wary of Williams; others are downright hostile.’’
A statement included in an NBC press release on Thursday marked Williams’s first time breaking his silence.
“I’m sorry. I said things that weren’t true,’’ it said. “I let down my NBC colleagues and our viewers, and I’m determined to earn back their trust.’’
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