Rainbow flags will soar all over North America this weekend as the LGBT community and its allies celebrate Pride and the aptly-timed U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favour of gay marriage.
View Comments Print. NBC News anchor Brian Williams was suspended Tuesday for six months without pay after admitting that he wrongly reported being under fire during the Iraq war. NBC News president Deborah Turness announced the decision to staff Tuesday night in a memo. âWe have decided today to suspend Brian Williams as managing editor and anchor of NBC Nightly News for six months,â Ms. Turness said. âThe suspension will be without pay and is effective immediately.â.
Brian Williams lost his job as anchor of the NBC Nightly News for perpetuating one fiction, and for failing to perpetuate another. The first fiction you're probably familiar with. Last winter, Williams was caught for having repeated a tall tale about his experiences embedded with U.S. troops on a helicopter in the 2003 Iraq War.