Lester Holt makes History ...

Lester Holt took over NBC Nightly News yesterday replacing the ousted anchorman Brian Williams, who had issues with telling the whole truth and nothing but.  It's bittersweet, while I remain a fan of Brian Williams, I also really dig Lester Holt's journalism.  At the end of the day Williams clearly crossed the line.  Below is excerpts from 'Holt's' take in the debacle with Williams. *kk*

Even Lester Holt didn't know what was going on while the Brian Williams scandal nearly burned down NBC News.

The NBC brass kept Holt uniformed during the nearly five months he filled in for the disgraced anchor. Finally, last week, the 55-year-old network news journeyman became NBC’s new news star as he was officially anointed the anchor of the flagship program, “Nightly News.”

Ultimately, the embattled Williams lost his prestigious perch behind the anchor desk after an internal investigation revealed that he had spent years exaggerating his role in world events on talk shows, speaking engagements and at parties.

The two newsmen had traded some emails during Williams’ suspension, but they spoke last Thursday for the first time since the scandal.

Holt describes the conversation as “personal,” so he declined to give the details, but he did reveal that he and Williams are on solid ground as colleagues.

“It was a conversation that we both had been craving but didn't know how to initiate,” Holt says. “The bottom line is that we expressed our friendship to each other. We acknowledged that while some might see this as awkward, nothing that has transpired was between the two of us. We are friends and the best way to characterize it is that Brian and I are good.”

During the Williams suspension, Holt quickly became aware that he wasn’t merely filling in for Williams on television. “I was asked to lead the newsroom through this time and it was hard — especially in the first few days and weeks when all of those eyeballs were focused on us.”