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At NBC’s ‘Nightly News,’ Lester Holt Offers More Than Just Headlines

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By Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor TV viewers know “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt will deliver the latest headlines in the national news cycle.

Over the past few nights, however, he’s been offering something else: empathy. Over four recent nights, Holt has served up short essays aimed at putting the nation’s recent chaos – a mix of an unavoidable pandemic, a faltering economy, and protests over racial injustice – into new perspective.

Simply put, he is telling viewers that they are not alone in a moment of national instability. “It is the season of our despair.

A new pandemic we can’t control – coronavirus. And an old epidemic we can’t control either – an aching legacy of racial inequality,” Holt said during Friday’s “Nightly”

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