Brian Williams: Will He Get What He Deserves?

Brian Williams apologizes for false Iraq story from Politico
"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams apologized Wednesday for falsely claiming that he had been aboard a helicopter that was shot down during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Stars and Stripes reports."
Of course, Williams has since "stepped down" for some amount of time.  This is all of a piece with the ratings-ization of television news.  Thirty years ago, Williams would have been fired.  Now, like Lara Logan at CBS, he will be asked to lay low until the media becomes distracted by the next Bill Cosby disclosure, the next celebrity suicide, or the next hysterical over-reaction/hissy fit the right throws over some innocuous Obama statement -- then he will be quietly reinstated or, who knows, even given some new, even higher-profile-show.  This is the 21st century way the networks ensure "good" reporting.