Lester Holt is not a clock-watcher, but he should be. Watching a clock would enable him to get the time element in scripts correct—if he cared to. But, like Brian Williams before him, Holt messes with the clock big time. So big that I’ve written an article about Holt’s and Williams’s trickery.
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