Oftentimes I’ll notice a spurt of new traffic to an old blog post and the catalyst will not be immediately apparent.

Such is not the case with this 2013 post where I noted that NBC News anchor Brian Williams, a vocal critic of Twitter, had nonetheless opened an account there three years prior from which he had issued exactly zero tweets to his 154,000 followers. Why bother?

That old post has been getting traffic in recent days and there is no doubt as to why: Yesterday NBC announced that Williams has been suspended without pay for six months for having repeatedly told an untrue tale of having come under fire while in a helicopter covering the war in Iraq.

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