And That’s the Way It Isn’t

(1965: Walter Cronkite. 2015: Walter Mitty.)

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Last week, I had dinner with NBC anchor Brian Williams, and we were both killed.

No, wait. That was a different table.

By now you’ve heard the confession. Brian Williams, NBC News’ front man for a decade – a man who gets paid $13 million a year to wear suits, clock in at five pm, and work for nearly thirty minutes – has admitted that he once lied about a story. Okay, he once lied about a story that involved him. Okay, he wasn’t involved in...