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News broke Friday morning that NBC News chairman Pat Fili-Krushel will be replaced by Andy Lack, whose name is more or less synonymous with NBC News' late-'90s renaissance when the Today show was going from strength to strength and Tom Brokaw anchored Nightly News.
Fili-Krushel, according to a memo from NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke, "will move into a new corporate role on my executive team."
The appointment, said analyst Andrew Tyndall, is less about Brian Williams' misbehavior than about reshuffling the news organization at a time when it must change, and quickly.
"Under [Fili-Krushel's] management, MSNBC has gone into the ditch," Tyndall noted.
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