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https://npr.org/2020/05/04/850292571/nbc-news-chief-andrew-lack-out-after-tenure-marked-by-scandal
Although I suspect it will be a long wait unlike the many FAUX News movies about Ailes and his pecker. Ailes deserved it but NBC makes him look like an amateur
NBC News chairman Andrew Lack was forced out Monday as part of a broader reorganization. The surprise wasn't in the announcement of Lack's departure, but that it had taken so long.
In his more than five years in charge of NBC News, Lack had overseen more than his share of disasters. There was the fiasco in 2017 by NBC News not to broadcast Ronan Farrow's #MeToo report on Harvey Weinstein, or even to pursue it further.
Farrow would win a Pulitzer Prize for The New Yorker for the project. Farrow's book, Catch and Kill, devoted extensive attention to NBC's decision. MSNBC's top host, Rachel Maddow, invited Farrow on her show and gave his allegations serious treatment. They both criticized NBC for its handling of the story.
In November 2017, just a month after Farrow's New Yorker article was published, NBC fired star Today Show host Matt Lauer over sexual assault and harassment allegations. The horrific specifics of those accusations — which Lauer denies, saying the relations were consensual — remained secret for two years, until the publication of Farrow's book. Farrow reported that Weinstein threatened to reveal Lauer's behavior toward women when NBC was weighing the piece on the Hollywood producer.
There was also the $69 million flop: the three-year contract Lack gave former Fox News star Megyn Kelly, whose arrival sidelined popular Today show anchor Tamron Hall. Kelly's Sunday evening newsmagazine quickly evaporated while her daytime hour failed to make a dent in the ratings. When Kelly made remarks that seemed to defend wearing blackface, her Today colleagues shunned her and she was bought out of her contract.
All of these episodes happened on Lack's watch and dominated the public's understanding of NBC News. In the case of Kelly, the decision to hire her was exclusively his. And Lack's own judgment and behavior came under scrutiny after Farrow reported on allegations that Lack had an extramarital affair with a subordinate decades earlier while he was an executive at CBS News.
Although I suspect it will be a long wait unlike the many FAUX News movies about Ailes and his pecker. Ailes deserved it but NBC makes him look like an amateur
NBC News chairman Andrew Lack was forced out Monday as part of a broader reorganization. The surprise wasn't in the announcement of Lack's departure, but that it had taken so long.
In his more than five years in charge of NBC News, Lack had overseen more than his share of disasters. There was the fiasco in 2017 by NBC News not to broadcast Ronan Farrow's #MeToo report on Harvey Weinstein, or even to pursue it further.
Farrow would win a Pulitzer Prize for The New Yorker for the project. Farrow's book, Catch and Kill, devoted extensive attention to NBC's decision. MSNBC's top host, Rachel Maddow, invited Farrow on her show and gave his allegations serious treatment. They both criticized NBC for its handling of the story.
In November 2017, just a month after Farrow's New Yorker article was published, NBC fired star Today Show host Matt Lauer over sexual assault and harassment allegations. The horrific specifics of those accusations — which Lauer denies, saying the relations were consensual — remained secret for two years, until the publication of Farrow's book. Farrow reported that Weinstein threatened to reveal Lauer's behavior toward women when NBC was weighing the piece on the Hollywood producer.
There was also the $69 million flop: the three-year contract Lack gave former Fox News star Megyn Kelly, whose arrival sidelined popular Today show anchor Tamron Hall. Kelly's Sunday evening newsmagazine quickly evaporated while her daytime hour failed to make a dent in the ratings. When Kelly made remarks that seemed to defend wearing blackface, her Today colleagues shunned her and she was bought out of her contract.
All of these episodes happened on Lack's watch and dominated the public's understanding of NBC News. In the case of Kelly, the decision to hire her was exclusively his. And Lack's own judgment and behavior came under scrutiny after Farrow reported on allegations that Lack had an extramarital affair with a subordinate decades earlier while he was an executive at CBS News.