(From Mervin Block.com -- By Mervin Block)
BRIAN WILLIAMS already stands out in this year of the Olympics -- he set a record, apparently, in the men's singles, free-style, indoor competition for tossing around the word "tonight."
In one sentence, he used tonight four times.
In the first 33 words of a 53-word sentence on NBC NIGHTLY NEWS of January 24, he said, "We have a crowded broadcast tonight from our backdrop here tonight, as TIM RUSSERT and I prepare for tonight's GOP presidential debate, to medical news on ovarian cancer, to our lead story tonight..."
And, in a show of stamina, he again said "tonight" in each of his next two sentences.
But history-making events are not unusual on Nightly News.
About once a month, on average, Williams, the anchor and managing editor, describes an event as historic, or history making, or a history-maker.
Williams likes history enough to use it twice in one sentence -- "The Iowa caucuses (the day before) are history, and no matter where the race goes from here, BARACK OBAMA and MIKE HUCKABEE are now in the history books as the winners." (January 4th)
Now in the history books? Any publishers who could bring out a history book that fast -- in less than 24 hours -- would be history-makers.
Several nights later, Williams said, "Good evening from Manchester, New Hampshire, where the primary here tonight will go into the history books." (January 8th)
The primary here tonight? The primary lasted all day. People were still voting, the polls hadn't closed, the votes hadn't even been counted yet.
Will Brian go into the history books?
Who knows?
Brian Williams -- History-Maker, Tonight
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