Controversy grows over Brian Williams´ Iraq apology

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Controversy grows over Brian
Williams´ Iraq apology

CNN, by Brian Stelter
Original Article
If NBC and Brian Williams believed a Facebook post and an on-air apology were enough, they were wrong. In the hours after Williams recanted a long-told story Wednesday about an RPG attack in Iraq, rank and file employees at NBC News openly wondered whether he would be sanctioned — or worse — for the series of errors. Some of the employees said they doubted that Williams made an innocent mistake and said he´d damaged the network´s credibility as well as his own. But there was no indication on Thursday morning of any impending disciplinary action. The executives in charge of the

I feel bad for Brian Williams; he was in the moment, and dramatized his response. We have all stretched the truth when telling a story to make it more appealing.