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Article: Has new anchor missed out on the glory days of network news?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 1, 2004
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Byline: Ken Parish Perkins
As early as age 8, Brian Williams would stand in the bathroom of his upstate New York home and deliver the news through a paper-towel roll. He has always been relentlessly driven for the things he holds dear, be they fast cars or the Holy Grail of TV journalism.
Williams never chased his NASCAR dreams, partly because, I suspect, they might have negated the one he really wanted: network news anchordom.
On Thursday, after a lifetime of waiting and a decade of being groomed for the job, Williams takes over "NBC Nightly News" from departing legend Tom Brokaw. It will be the first time in 20 years that the anchor chair of ...