David Gregory on Losing His Dream Job, Brian Williams, and His New Book About Faith
It’s been a year since NBC News dumped David Gregory out of the moderator’s chair of Meet the Press. Gregory's messy exit from the network where he spent 20 years became one of the headline-generating scandals that rocked NBC. (The others, of course, being Brian Williams’s suspension and ouster from NBC Nightly News and the ongoing off-camera drama at Today). Gregory has remained mostly silent about the public ordeal of losing his dream job, but now he’s resurfacing. Yesterday, Gregory sat down at DGS Deli in Washington and over lox, latkes, and crispy chicken skin (no bacon!) and talked about leaving the longest running show on television, why he doesn’t think he was fired, and how George W. Bush inspired him to find God and write a book titled How's Your Faith?
In the book you write about how you didn’t want to tell your kids that you were fired from Meet the Press because that would imply you did something wrong. For the record, were you fired?
No. I wouldn’t reduce it to that. I made it clear to [NBC] that I was becoming too much the story and that for the good of the show they had to shore me up. If that wasn’t going to be the case, then I needed to move on.
They did support you early on. Especially after that Washington Post story that reported that NBC hired a psychological consultant to study you.
Which was false. You know, there were a lot of leaks that were coming out and speculating about future of the show that could have only come from within NBC.
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