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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd writes that NBC was warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it was a joke in the news division.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre and Consumers’ Association of Canada (PIAC-CAC) filed applications with the CRTC Friday complaining about the “tied selling” used by the two services.

It was a Feb 8th when President Warren G. Harding had the first radio installed in the White House. When Prince George got its first radio station... CKPG with 250 watts at 1230 KHz. When Seattle's KIRO TV channel 7 (CBS) began broadcasting. When Johnny Cash (pictured) made his one-and-only appearance on CBS-TV's 'Ed Sullivan Show.' And when 'The Dukes of Hazzard' ended its 6-and-a-half-year run on CBS-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Jenner did tell the authorities that photographers were nearby, as usual, but they didn’t play a factor in the accident.

Michaels needed to get station clearances up fast or face ratings doom. So he agreed to talk to me. One thing he said illustrated how sure he was of his mission: "When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is."

Williams will step aside from “NBC Nightly News” for the next “several days” to address questions raised about a story Williams told of being in a helicopter hit by an RPG over Iraq in 2003–a story widely discredited.

The “fact-checking” inquiry will review not only the Iraq incident but also Mr. Williams’s reporting during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as well as any other issues that arise during the investigation.