NBC News chairman Andy Lack was widely criticized for keeping the investigation into who knew about Matt Lauer’s sexual misconduct in-house.“This is not what the reporting in the book suggests. We spent several years reporting this out, extensively fact-checking it, what we show in this book with a paper trail, with documents, is that there were multiple secret settlements and non-disclosures being struck with women at NBC News,” Farrow said Friday on “Good Morning America.”
“GMA” host George Stephanopoulos asked if the settlements were “after the fact,” as NBC honchos have insisted.
“Nope. Years before, over a period of six to seven years. A period in which NBC had previously denied any settlements. There were seven non-disclosure agreements. Multiples ones of those were with Matt Lauer accusers,” Farrow said. “This is years before this incident with [Lauer’s rape accuser] Brooke Nevils and the firing.”
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Farrow added that he spoke with senior executives at NBC who were well aware of the clandestine settlements. “This was a company with a lot of secrets,” he said.
NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Farrow, a former NBC News reporter, says the network stopped him from exposing now-disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator. NBC News claimed his reporting wasn’t fit to print, so instead Farrow famously took his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece to The New Yorker and helped launch the #MeToo movement.
His book reveals his side of the story behind why NBC News seemingly protected Weinstein, who reportedly leveraged NBC executives with scandalous information regarding Lauer – who was the Peacock Network’s biggest star before his own skeletons emerged.
A former high-level NBC News staffer tells Fox News that the organization has a history of problematic leadership that extends well before Farrow’s revelations.
“Historically the place has always been a noxious and unrepentant boys’ club – Michael Gartner, Dick Ebersol when he oversaw ‘Today,’ Jeff Zucker, Steve Capus and the worst of them all, Andy Lack,” the former staffer told Fox News. “Woe to any woman who seeks to thrive there.”
Lack has managed to cling to his high-paid gig amid a series of embarrassing scandals, including a variety of accusations about his own alleged affairs. The New York Post’s Page Six obtained an excerpt of Farrow’s book, which cites an alleged victim who claims that the NBC News chairman “preyed on female underlings and pursued sexual relationships with them” throughout his career.
Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira and Jeff Zucker at the Friars Club roast of Matt Lauer at the New York Hilton on October 24, 2008. (Photo by Bobby Bank/WireImage) The men of NBC News aren’t the only people culpable for the network’s boys’ club culture, according to former NBC correspondent Linda Vester.
Vester, who has accused NBC News legend Tom Brokaw of sexual misconduct (a claim he denies), is angry that Lack’s unit didn’t thoroughly investigate her claim. She feels that changes won’t be made until the Peacock Network’s high-powered women speak out.
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“I think that Mika [Brzezinski], Rachel Maddow, Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb should all be using the power that they have as highly paid anchors to push NBC to investigate all of the high-profile alleged harassers who are still walking the halls of the newsroom,” Vester recently told Fox News. “They make a lot of money and they should use that bully pulpit, that power, to make NBC do what’s right.”
The list of chauvinistic scandals at NBC News in recent memory is quite lengthy, as the network refused to enlist an outside investigator to determine who knew about Lauer’s misconduct, sat on the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women, and reportedly had high-profile hosts try to help disgraced political host Mark Halperin revive his career after being fired from MSNBC amid sexual misconduct claims, in addition to all the Weinstein-related issues and claims against Lack himself.
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Meanwhile, things haven’t been as favorable for some women at NBC News. Megyn Kelly was dismissed for controversial comments about “black face” amid widespread rumors that network executives were annoyed at her constant coverage of the #MeToo movement.
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