More details on Lauer and some of the other politically liberal male crew at NBC are coming out today
One complaint came from a former employee who said Mr. Lauer had summoned her to his office ... When she sat down, she said, he locked the door, which he could do by pressing a button while sitting at his desk. ... Lauer asked her to unbutton her blouse, which she did. She said the anchor then stepped out from behind his desk, pulled down her pants, bent her over a chair and had intercourse with her. At some point, she said, she passed out with her pants pulled halfway down. She woke up on the floor of his office, and Mr. Lauer had his assistant take her to a nurse.
Mr. Lauer issued an apology, expressing “sorrow."
Jokes about women’s appearances were routine ... a director saying he “wanted some milk” in reference to one woman’s chest and making inappropriate comments about women over an audio feed with multiple people listening ... colleagues playing a crude game in which they chose which female guests or staff members they would prefer to marry, kill or have sex with.
traveling with Mr. Lauer for a story, she said, he asked her inappropriate questions over dinner, like whether she had ever cheated on her husband. On the way to the airport, she said, Mr. Lauer sat uncomfortably close to her in the car; she recalled that when she moved away, he said, “You’re no fun.”
In recent weeks, NBC News was criticized for passing on an exposé of Mr. Weinstein by an MSNBC contributor, Ronan Farrow. Mr. Farrow’s reporting later appeared in The New Yorker, and helped set off the current wave of revelations about abuses by powerful men in media and entertainment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/business/media/nbc-matt-lauer.html
