Breitbart: Ronan Farrow’s upcoming Catch and Kill exposes a NBC News culture that was so corrupted by its own relationships and scandals, Harvey Weinstein was able to get the network to kill Farrow’s bombshell report about him.
Farrow claims that while he was working for NBC News and putting together the reporting that would eventually run in the New Yorker, end Weinstein’s career, win a Pulitzer, and launch the #MeToo movement, the movie mogul successfully lobbied top executives at NBC to kill the story.
Here’s a breakdown as told by the far-left Hollywood Reporter’s advance copy of the book:
- Matt Lauer as Leverage
Farrow claims Weinstein knew all about Matt Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct and threatened to expose the NBC star if the network didn’t kill Farrow’s story:
“Weinstein made it known to the network that he was aware of Lauer’s behavior and capable of revealing it,” Farrow writes in his long-awaited new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Little, Brown and Company, Oct. 15). Citing anonymous sources at NBC and AMI, Farrow, 31, claims that Weinstein was using the Enquirer‘s accumulated dirt on the Today show star’s alleged workplace misconduct to pressure NBC executives to kill Farrow’s long-gestating Weinstein exposé.
NBC denies being threatened with Lauer. Nevertheless, Lauer’s alleged behavior (including a just-revealed anal rape allegation) would eventually destroy the popular Today Show anchor. In fact, it was Farrow’s reporting on Weinstein that would launch the #MeToo movement that steamrolled Lauer, among dozens of others in Hollywood and the elite media.
- NBC News Allegedly Covered Up a Number of Secret Payouts
Farrow further alleges that NBC News felt especially vulnerable about Lauer due to a number of secret payouts involving the Today anchor’s alleged misconduct; payouts that, if true, proved the network knew about Lauer long before he was fired in November of 2017: MORE
NBC = Nothing But Clintons
All the networks are evil but cbs has a jihad agains’t the President. The press was supposed to keep gov’t accountable but nobody is allowed to hold the press accountable? How about some reporters going to prison for accepting leaks.
There are evil people out there, like Weinstein. That will never change. But it those who enable them who are the real problem, because if they just did the right thing the evil people wouldn’t be able to get away with it over and over.
“Predators”?
Ooh, look! Another phrase (like “government investment”) that can no longer mean what it does.
Matt Lauer is out flogging his new book titled “The old dirt road”
Did Lauer pull a Bill Clinton and tell the woman to put some ice on it?
Everything I know about this is second hand because I never, ever watch this, or any other tv shit. It’s awesome not keeping abreast of this diarrhea.