Brian Williams: 'A Reporter, Not A Cowboy'

Brian Williams is in Iraq. “The decision to come here was mine.” Bono is apparently not with him.

Good line from NBC News president Steve Capus, lifted from his exchange with “HowieKurtz on CNN’s Reliable Sources over the weekend:

KURTZ: Steve, did you have any reservations about sending your anchor into a dangerous war zone?

STEVE CAPUS, NBC NEWS PRESIDENT: Well, of course you have reservations about it. And we talked about this for months and months and went back and forth about whether this was a good idea.

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