Memo: NBC News president unleashes a scorched earth defense on Ronan Farrow's depiction of the company's executives
sent on Monday morning to NBC News and MSNBC employees, NBC News president Noah Oppenheim is disputing several of Farrow’s claims inthat the network has “no secrets and nothing to hide,” before describing the allegations in Farrow’s book as a “smear” and a “conspiracy theory.”
“Farrow’s effort to defame NBC News is clearly motivated not by a pursuit of truth, but an axe to grind,” Oppenheim continued, adding, “It is built on a series of distortions, confused timelines, and outright inaccuracies.” Oppenheim, according to reviews of the book, which is available on Tuesday, comes off particularly badly inNoah Oppenheim, a Today show and NBC News executive to whom Farrow reported, shruggingly tells Farrow that during the 2016 election, women in NBC’s news team had reported sexual harassment by a Trump campaign official on the trail but weren’t eager to come forward publicly.
In the memo, Oppenheim is most concerned with pressing back on the idea that executives, himself included, did not take allegations of sexual harassment and assault seriously, as well as the claim that he and other executives killed Farrow’s story on Weinstein’s abuses in order to protect him.
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