Brian Williams
Brian Williams
Brian Douglas Williamsis an American journalist, currently serving as chief breaking-news anchor and primetime election anchor for MSNBC. Williams is best known for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network. Six months after Williams joined the program in December 2004, NBC News was awarded the Peabody Award for its coverage of the Hurricane Katrina story, with the award committee stating that Williams and the NBC staff...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth5 May 1959
CityRidgewood, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
because I knew this would be the shelter of last resort in this city. I thought it would be a fascinating angle to see how this many people came together.
We feel so good about the quality about what's going, on and off the ice. We felt it was a good way for people to give it another try.
Perhaps we are guilty of settling in to too comfortable a journalistic pattern, and perhaps this tragedy did serve as a reminder that this is what we do. I think too many people had forgotten that. There is a reason we show up after awful events. We really were the viewers' advocates on this.
Everyone is always trying to write our lead for us in our business. Let me try, ... It's a great day for NBC News. It's a great day for the network evening news business. It's a place where, after all, about 30 million people come every night. And it's a place where nine months ago, for a horrible set of reasons, everyone was reminded why they come there every night.
What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?
If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.
If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone.
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
There's a danger that all these images start to look alike to viewers.
Bob and Elizabeth are very familiar competitors. I'm looking forward to many years of friendship while we chase each other around the globe.
I've been a starter, and I feel I am a starter. I think we had a good situation here bringing in Fred (Smoot), and the first-round (restricted free agent) tender they put on me gave us a lot of guys. So, whatever happens, happens.
Thank God the White House is changing the subject.
As I said, you can set your watch by that place.