NBC trying to keep Brian Williams - but maybe not as 'Nightly News' anchor

[Eugene]

Source: CNNMoney

NBC trying to keep Brian Williams - but maybe not as 'Nightly News' anchor

By Brian Stelter

Brian Williams may lose his seat as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News," but executives are looking for a way to keep him at the network in a new role.

Weeks of complex negotiations between Williams and NBC are not yet complete, according to sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

There are any number of possible outcomes. Several of the sources said Williams could end up leaving NBC altogether following a financial settlement.

But another possibility, and the one advanced in recent discussions, involves a new role for Williams.

Andy Lack, the chairman of NBC News, has been a proponent of this outcome.

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CNNMoney (New York) May 31, 2015: 11:41 AM ET

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/31/media/brian-williams-nbc-future/

[Politicalboi]

1. Let someone new get a chance

Throw the bum out. He's made enough money he can't spend. Let him go to Faux.

[Buzz Clik]

2. What? For simply embellishing an otherwise true story?

Holy crap.

He has lost the aura of objectivity, but to drop him into the Fox cesspool? Seems really harsh.

[MADem]

3. It wasn't just one story.

The man is a serial bullshitter.

[Hoppy]

4. They could hire him as a fact checker.

[merrily]

5. "Trying" to keep Brian Williams? Why?

And how hard could it be to keep him?