NBC News president Noah Oppenheim fact-checks Ronan Farrow's book: 'We have no secrets and nothing to hide'
where he stood by his reporting and reiterated that the book was "extensively fact-checked.", "Matt Lauer's actions were abhorrent, and the anger and sadness he caused continue to this day. As we've said since the moment he was fired, his abuses should never have happened. Ronan Farrow's book takes that undeniable fact and twists it into a lie — alleging we were a 'company with a lot of secrets.' We have no secrets and nothing to hide.
He continues, "Now that we’ve read Farrow’s book, it’s clear — his smear rests on the allegation that NBC’s management knew about and took steps to hide Matt Lauer’s misconduct before his firing in November of 2017. Without that, he has no basis on which to rest his second conspiracy theory — that his Harvey Weinstein reporting was squashed to protect Lauer.
"Farrow alleges there were employees who reported Lauer’s behavior prior to November of 2017 and were paid settlements to silence them. Not only is this false, the so-called evidence Farrow uses in his book to support the charge collapses under the slightest scrutiny." The note goes on to share the internal analysis made by the NBCU Legal Team, stating that they found only three examples "that Farrow alleges are Lauer-related before 2017, with even minimal detail, involve employees who by their own admission made no complaint to management, and whose departure agreements were unrelated to Lauer and completely routine."
Those three examples reference a woman who is named in the book and who Farrow says shared the account of her incident with then-anchor Ann Curry; an on-air personality who departed in 2012; and a senior member of theshow team who departed in 2017 with an alleged seven figure payout. (All three accounts were reported in
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