By Noel Young

NBC news anchor Brian Williams, one of America’s most respected broadcasters, has taken himself off the air for the “next several days,” he said in a statement on Saturday.

Williams, who is also the managing editor of the “Nightly News” broadcast, America’s most watched news programme, has removed himself from the show.

His decision is in light of a growing controversy over a false story he told about coming under fire in a helicopter in Iraq in 2003. He later said he “misremembered” the event.

Lester Holt will anchor the evening news broadcast in his place.

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Source: The Drum