Some believe NBC will actually have ethics and eventually dump lyin’ Brian Williams. Those who actually think Williams may leave NBC may end up at CNN. Not as a news anchor, but as a talk show replacement for old crusty Larry King and failed arrogant lymie Piers Morgan. Considering Brian Williams credibility and legacy, that would be a perfect fit for both CNN and Brian Williams.
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Williams’s future, NBC insiders insist, remains up in the air. He and Andy Lack are close friends, leading to widespread speculation that Lack will reinstate him once his suspension is complete. But people close to Lack say nothing has yet been decided. Many NBC observers simply can’t imagine a network anchorman ever returning to his former position after being exposed as Williams has. The most Machiavellian scenario, floated by an NBC partisan, is that Jeff Zucker, whose distaste for Comcast executives is well known, has fanned the flames of controversy so that he can eventually snare Williams for CNN—not as a newsman but as the long-sought replacement for Larry King. “That’s the perfect solution,” a source says. “Zucker gets a star, and Brian gets the talk show he always wanted.”
Another NBC partisan points out that Comcast is simply suffering much the same pain General Electric did in the late 1980s in purchasing a news division it knew little about managing, suffering a scandal as a result (the Dateline truck incident for G.E.), and then cleaning house and bringing in Lack to fix it. “Don’t you see?” this person says. “It’s all happening again, just 20 years later.”