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Wow! Rachel Maddow is doing Farrow's piece on Weinstein. nt
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Rachel Maddow Confronts Her NBC News Bosses Live, on the Air
(pic from 2017)
By John Koblin and Michael M. Grynbaum
Published Oct. 25, 2019
Updated Oct. 26, 2019, 1:48 a.m. ET
The MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow publicly confronted the leadership of her own network on Friday night, declaring live on air that she and other NBC News employees had deep concerns about whether the organization had stymied Ronan Farrow’s reporting on the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
In a prime-time monologue, Ms. Maddow questioned why NBC News executives had not invited an independent investigation of the Weinstein episode or the workplace behavior of Matt Lauer, the former “Today” show anchor who was fired in 2017 after a colleague accused him of sexual misconduct. “I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs in this company since I’ve been here,” Ms. Maddow said. “It would be impossible for me to overstate the amount of consternation inside the building around this issue.” Ms. Maddow also revealed that NBCUniversal, the network’s parent company, had agreed to release NBC News employees from contractual clauses that could prevent them from speaking openly about sexual harassment they may have experienced at the network.
Ms. Maddow interviewed Mr. Farrow on her show — itself a surprise booking considering her bosses have been at war with him since the publication of his new book, “Catch and Kill,” in which he asserts that NBC executives blocked his reporting on Mr. Weinstein’s brutal treatment of women. Rich McHugh, Mr. Farrow’s producer at NBC, said in an interview with The New York Times last year that their reporting efforts were blocked. He made that claim again in a detailed first-person article published by Vanity Fair two weeks ago.
NBC News has strenuously denied any suggestion that it got in the way of Mr. Farrow’s investigation of the accusations against Mr. Weinstein, saying that his work was not fit for broadcast at the time he left the network in August 2017. Mr. Farrow later published his findings in articles for The New Yorker, the first of which was published in October 2017. The magazine ended up sharing a Pulitzer Prize in the public service category with The New York Times thanks to Mr. Farrow’s articles. NBC has maintained that his published work was substantially different from what he had when he was still at the network.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/business/rachel-maddow-ronan-farrow-nbc.html
(pic from 2017)
By John Koblin and Michael M. Grynbaum
Published Oct. 25, 2019
Updated Oct. 26, 2019, 1:48 a.m. ET
The MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow publicly confronted the leadership of her own network on Friday night, declaring live on air that she and other NBC News employees had deep concerns about whether the organization had stymied Ronan Farrow’s reporting on the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
In a prime-time monologue, Ms. Maddow questioned why NBC News executives had not invited an independent investigation of the Weinstein episode or the workplace behavior of Matt Lauer, the former “Today” show anchor who was fired in 2017 after a colleague accused him of sexual misconduct. “I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs in this company since I’ve been here,” Ms. Maddow said. “It would be impossible for me to overstate the amount of consternation inside the building around this issue.” Ms. Maddow also revealed that NBCUniversal, the network’s parent company, had agreed to release NBC News employees from contractual clauses that could prevent them from speaking openly about sexual harassment they may have experienced at the network.
Ms. Maddow interviewed Mr. Farrow on her show — itself a surprise booking considering her bosses have been at war with him since the publication of his new book, “Catch and Kill,” in which he asserts that NBC executives blocked his reporting on Mr. Weinstein’s brutal treatment of women. Rich McHugh, Mr. Farrow’s producer at NBC, said in an interview with The New York Times last year that their reporting efforts were blocked. He made that claim again in a detailed first-person article published by Vanity Fair two weeks ago.
NBC News has strenuously denied any suggestion that it got in the way of Mr. Farrow’s investigation of the accusations against Mr. Weinstein, saying that his work was not fit for broadcast at the time he left the network in August 2017. Mr. Farrow later published his findings in articles for The New Yorker, the first of which was published in October 2017. The magazine ended up sharing a Pulitzer Prize in the public service category with The New York Times thanks to Mr. Farrow’s articles. NBC has maintained that his published work was substantially different from what he had when he was still at the network.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/business/rachel-maddow-ronan-farrow-nbc.html
I know Farrow has been on the book circuit (as she has for her own book) but I haven't had chance to really delve into his reporting and obviously we have seen the results of both the Weinstein and Epstein nightmares.
