Ann Curry Warned NBC About Matt Lauer Before Firing

Rhona pharaoh's new book catch and kill was released today and it details nbc's alleged cover-up of Matt Lauer's behavior years before he was accused of rape yeah so in the book ronan says that Matt's accuser Brooke nevels was encouraged by Matt's former co-host Meredith Vieira to go to NBC HR about it and that's what led to his firing and once this revelation was made public last week and curry another of Matt's former co-host tweeted Brooke nevels is a credible young woman of good character I believe she's telling the truth and that breaks my heart oh yeah well now Ronan's book has been released we know that before this happened in 2014 an NBC producer told an that Matt had exposed himself to her in his office and went to NBC management and while she didn't reveal the producers identity she told management that they needed to do something about Matt's behavior okay so now this adds a whole new layer to and being fired that's they show in 2012 so remember this that was her tearful on-air could by where she was being made the scapegoat for falling ratings on the morning show and people people commented how cold and unsympathetic Matt seemed on-air about Anne's exit yeah now we don't know that and speaking out about Matt's behavior led to her being fired but it certainly doesn't look good on NBC now with this new information and was on CBS this morning back in January 2018 after Matt had been fired I think it's in general overdue we clearly are waking up to a reality and injustice that has been occurring for some time and I think it will continue to occur until the glass ceiling is finally broken this is about power a power imbalance where women are not valued as much as men I'm not talking about people being attracted to other people I'm talking about people in the workplace who are powerful who are abusing that power and women and men are suffering and I think the fact that people are speaking out is important and the fact that we are moving against this imbalance of power absolutely overdue do you believe that Matt Lauer abused his power you know I'm trying to do a harm in these conversations I can tell you that I I am not surprised by the allegations what I mean by that and I mean that you're not surprised because we've heard things you knew things what does that mean that means that in you know I'm down walking down that road I'm trying not to hurt people and I know what it's like to be publicly humiliated I never did anything wrong to be publicly humiliated and I don't want to cause that kind of pain to somebody else but I can say that I because you're asking me a very direct question I can say that I would be surprised if many women did not understand that there was a climate of verbal harassment that existed I think it would be surprising if someone said that they didn't see that that's what hell people are saying yeah absolutely this contributed to an being fired when she was at Barnard says American white men are truly the worst attendance is what's done in the dark will come to light remember we we showed that interview when it first happened back in January 2018 yeah it's so much more interesting to watch it knowing the context that we now know so yeah and had gone to MC producers and so she knew she knew an accusation but she didn't go public with event so I find that even interesting that at this point you know last year I guess it's about a year and a half ago she could have on-air said oh yeah I know a story yeah but it's a super circle because it's not you know she and her you don't want to out somebody right so one thing you don't want to do but in all of this and Ronan Pharos book and everything else the power imbalance and all this stuff it just comes down to to the people who make the decisions obviously nothing that had happened up to the point of Matt Lauer finally being fired mattered as much as money right no it's true that's it so that's what this whole thing that's the whole thing is about you can sort of wrap it any way you want to it is and this is not the first place this is happen and slowly over the years these other stories are coming out and it just always comes down to if we do this what do we lose right it's still justice brand

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Published: Tue Oct 15 2019