Chuck Todd: Fox Handles O’Reilly Spat ‘Like a Campaign,’ While NBC Did BriWi Correctly

According to Chuck Todd, the way Fox News and NBC News have handled their respective anchor controversies demonstrates the difference between the networks.

During a Sunday evening event at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, the Meet the Press moderator told host Jeff Greenfield that NBC has acted appropriately in its response to Nightly News anchor Brian Williams having repeatedly embellished and/or lied about his past experiences in war zone reporting. The network suspended Williams without pay for six months.

On the other hand, Todd said, Fox News has not responded in the best manner to accusations that Bill O’Reilly has repeatedly embellished his own war zone reporting stories. “They treat it like a campaign, we treated it like a news organization,” he told Greenfield, according to CNNMoney’s Tom Kludt.

Over the past month, the cable network has largely stood firm behind its primetime star, with the brunt of its public statements dismissing the charges and characterizing the reports as an “orchestrated campaign by far left advocates” to destroy him.

Todd said he is “proud” of NBC’s handling of the Williams firestorm, however.. “It proved that nobody’s bigger,” he is quoted as saying. “Nobody is above integrity and credibility. Period.”

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