Tom Brokaw Pushes Back On 'Vanity Fair' Story

Tom Brokaw

Veteran NBC News journalist Tom Brokaw pushed back on a Vanity Fair piece that reported that Brokaw is trying to prevent Brian Williams from returning to the network after he was suspended for exaggerating a story about coming under fire in Iraq.

"There was a story written last week in Vanity Fair, here they were writing a story about someone who had misled people and the story was completely unsourced. I was all through the story and the reporter never talked to me. [Journalist Bryan Burrough] never picked up the phone and asked me," Brokaw said at a University of Chicago Institute of Politics event, according to Politico.

Brokaw asked the audience to allow the investigation into the affair, led by NBC executive Richard Esposito, be completed before rendering judgment.

"This is a really, really serious case. There's a process underway," Brokaw said. "And the important thing is that the process is very carefully constructed, and we owe it to everybody -- including Brian and his family and certainly the people who work at NBC News who risk their lives everyday, and to the integrity of what NBC News has stood for all these years -- to let the process play out, to hear what the final conclusions are and then deal with it at that point."

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