In a lengthy staff memo, Noah Oppenheim pushes back on claims of secret payouts to Matt Lauer accusers: 'Not only is this false, the so-called evidence Farrow uses in his book to support the charge collapses under the slightest scrutiny.' Read the memo.
"I feel absolutely terrible that these three employees were subjected to Matt Lauer’s horrific behavior, but the facts do not support Farrow’s allegation of a 'cover-up,' and he offers no further evidence," said Oppenheim about the three women. "In fact, [Kim] Harris and the Legal team have determined that nothing in the book undermines any of the conclusions of the May 2018 investigation conducted by NBCUniversal in the wake of Lauer’s firing.
The NBC News president ends his note by saying, "Farrow takes the first false allegation — that we knew about Lauer's offenses — and uses it to sustain another, that we obstructed his reporting on Harvey Weinstein. Attached is the detailed accounting of that reporting, which we released in September 2018. Once, again, we stand by every word of it. In the meantime, Farrow’s effort to defame NBC News is clearly motivated not by a pursuit of truth, but an axe to grind.
Oppenheim's letter then continues to respond in detail to several items from the book and his note also includes Harris' original report from the May 2018 investigation.to promote the book and was given the chance to respond to Oppenheim's six-page memo, which he likened to other news organization attempts to "campaign to undercut the reporting" in his past investigations.
"This book is an extraordinarily, meticulously fact-checked work of investigative journalism. It's two years of reporting. One of the senior fact-checkers at thechecked it. I'll let the reporting in the book stand on its own. We're very confident in it," he said, adding that the response from journalists and sources inside NBC has been supportive. "And it's been amazing to see how the press has rallied around it. I think people have seen it for what it is.
Farrow also said NBC is putting out "untruths" and "lies," adding, "They are concealing the fact that they
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