I don't personally wish bad things for Williams. But, I hope that he doesn't return.
Damn it, he betrayed the trust of the public. I just wish that there was somebody on TV that the people could count on to be honest and responsible.

Maybe there is so much distrust, vaccine deniers, climate deniers, etc because the media and government is loaded with so many hucksters. People don't know whom to trust.

Goose wrote:

I don't personally wish bad things for Williams. But, I hope that he doesn't return.
Damn it, he betrayed the trust of the public. I just wish that there was somebody on TV that the people could count on to be honest and responsible.

Maybe there is so much distrust, vaccine deniers, climate deniers, etc because the media and government is loaded with so many hucksters. People don't know whom to trust.

I agree that Williams shouldn't return. He's lost the faith of the public as a legit newsman. But I don't think anyone should be surprised. Williams was just as much a celebrity entertainer that a journalist. Whether he was "Slow Jamming the News on Jimmy Fallon, or appearing on NBC sitcoms, he seemed to want to be more than just the anchor and face of NBC News. 

And that's just stupid and shallow on his part. He gets paid a few million dollars a year to read the news. Isn't that enough? You know what my day is like if I'm the anchor of the Nightly News?

1) Read the news
2) Go home
3) Get drunk
4) Count my money

That said, I did come across this defense of Williams which I believe makes some very valid points around the corporitization of our media and it's general intertwining with our government and it's agenda.

Brian Williams will lose his job for giving us what we wanted to hear

....In a sense, then, Brian Williams’ problem is of his – and our – own creation, the flip side of the problem Chris Hayes dealt with when suggesting he wasn’t sure every single soldier was a hero. If reporting on troops is still a monoculture developed via government-approved embeds and nurtured by the shaming voices of other media who deem any skepticism about official narratives – or any impulse to evaluate combat and soldiery on an individual rather than collective basis – to be dangerously close to a stab-in-the back, then, for many, the only thing to do is to enlist, even temporarily.

Besides, moments of authentic skepticism will disappear down the memory hole for all but the castigated journalist torn apart for voicing them. Pat Tillman was celebrated at this year’s Super Bowl – held in his home state of Arizona – without anyone even re-reporting of his death via friendly fire and the orchestrated cover-up of the circumstances surrounding it. The same media aflutter about NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams’ helicopter ride fibs seems to have entirely forgotten that, in 2003, NBC aired the factually-indifferent TV movie Saving Jessica Lynch practically moments after her bandages came off.

The really dumb, pitiable thing about Brian Williams’ circumstance today is that he felt he had to do it at all – that his maleness or reportage or patriotism would be enhanced by it. But death doesn’t need a punch-up or rewrite.....

He lied, repeatedy, about his experiences in Iraq, in the context of reporting news,,,,,,

I hear of rumors Catie Curic is sniffing around for a job.  Please------NO, NO, NO!

Let me first state that I am no fan of liars. However, I just can't get that worked up over what Brian Williams said. My first reaction to the story when it came out was - "(snort) We get lied to all the time about important things that actually affect us, and people want to have a fit about a news guy telling embellished fishing tales. Please." I guess I find it sadly ironic that our "leaders" could lie us into a war, and I don't know of anyone involved that got 6 months unpaid leave, or even 6 hours for that matter. Fox news lies all the time. Politicians lie all the time. But apparently it only really matters if it's the news guy talking about his personal experiences? I find it strange that we hold our newscasters to higher standards than our lawmakers.
That being said, I still wish he wouldn't have embellished to make his experiences sound more exciting than they actually were.