Andrew Lack publicly addressed the Brian Williams suspension and potential resolution at a private meeting following NBC’s upfront Monday.
The Daily Beast reported Lack told affiliate representatives that the controversy surrounding Williams’ exaggerations about past reporting and subsequent suspension has caused NBC News to be “playing hurt,” and that a decision on the anchor’s future with the network would come “soon.”
“He said the end is in sight,” an attendee of the meeting recounted, noting Lack wouldn’t go further than the term soon.
Williams is currently in the fourth month of a six-month suspension for exaggerating about his Iraq War experience, where he erroneously said he was on a helicopter that was shot down by RPG fire.