A major, award-winning TV journalist in the United States has had to leave his job for six months.
For 10 years, Brian Williams has been an “anchor” on the popular NBC Nightly News show. (In this case, “anchor” means a person on camera who reads out and reports the news.)
He was suspended (told by his boss to leave his job) for six months without pay because he “misrepresented” some important events that happened to him during the Iraq War.
While Williams was covering the war more than a decade ago, he was in a helicopter with some American soldiers. Williams has been telling people—including during a recent television interview with talk-show host David Letterman—that his helicopter was hit by a grenade and was forced to the ground.