mark feldstein is a professor at the university of maryland college of journalism. he's a former investigative correspondent for abc and cnn. andrew heyward, i want to start with you. it seems that this was a practical decision more so than a principled one. if brian williams can be trusted, why not give him his job back? if he can't be trusted doesn't this create sort of a double standard? is massachusetts nbc just a little lower than nbc? >> i don't think there's a double standard for accuracy. the viewer has the right to expect accuracy from a reporter reporting from a mudslide in marin county just as from the anchor of an evening newscast. i do think there's a hierarchy in the television news world, and the evening news or the nightly news has traditionally been the so-called flagship program, and with the slight exception of abc now, traditionally, the anchor of that program has been the so-called face of the network. soening this case, brian is paying a price for severe errors in judgment. i don't think that anybody's going to hold him to a different standard