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Sources: NBC Threatened Ronan Farrow if He Kept Reporting on Harvey Weinstein
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sources-nbc-threatened-ronan-farrow-if-he-kept-reporting-on-harvey-weinstein

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The producer who worked alongside Ronan Farrow at NBC News on his Harvey Weinstein investigation quit in protest earlier this month.

Rich McHugh tendered his resignation on Friday, Aug. 17, a year to the day that the Weinstein story left with Farrow. Since then, Farrow has won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles that revealed allegations of sexual harassment and assault—and questions have lingered about why the network gave up on the story that helped launch the #MeToo movement.

NBC News has long insisted the Weinstein exposé wasn’t ready to run on air or online, contrary to Farrow’s claims that it was. Farrow’s story, which ultimately ran in The New Yorker, was part of a series that ultimately won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, earned him in the prestigious George Polk Award for National Reporting, and garnered near-universal praise from his colleagues.

NBC has some dirty laundry.
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NEW: Daily Beast’s NBC Bombshell is ‘Only the Beginning’, Much Bigger Exposé Expected Soon
https://www.mediaite.com/online/only-the-beginning-daily-beast-has-a-lot-more-reporting-to-come-on-nbc-news/

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The Daily Beast’s bombshell on NBC News’ alleged internal efforts to kill Ronan Farrow’s expose on Harvey Weinstein is “only the beginning” of their reporting on the network’s misconduct problems, a source told Mediaite.

The mood at NBC News was one of surprise at the Beast’s new report on Farrow, with some relieved it was not the devastating story they expected, one network source said. That optimism might be misplaced: Mediaite learned the Daily Beast has spoken to close to 100 sources at NBC News for a broader report on misconduct at the network that has been in the works for months.

“There’s more to come,” a source with knowledge of the Daily Beast’s reporting told Mediaite after the release of its story on Thursday. “A lot more.”

Uh-oh, NBC has some explaining to do.
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Your first assessment was quite correct. Some has already become public, but, unsurprisingly, there's a lot more to come, evidently. And NBC execs had to know where Ronan Farrow's work would lead.

Personally, my takeaway from all that has come out is that my utter contempt for the entertainment and "news" media has been over-the-top much too kind. There's a tell-all book coming out by a female former Atlantic Records A & R manager that sounds like normal people will have to take a shower after every chapter.
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Your first assessment was quite correct. Some has already become public, but, unsurprisingly, there's a lot more to come, evidently. And NBC execs had to know where Ronan Farrow's work would lead.

Personally, my takeaway from all that has come out is that my utter contempt for the entertainment and "news" media has been over-the-top much too kind. There's a tell-all book coming out by a female former Atlantic Records A & R manager that sounds like normal people will have to take a shower after every chapter.

Are you talking about this book?

Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman's Story of Surviving the Music Industry
https://www.amazon.com/Anything-Hit-Womans-Surviving-Industry/dp/0912777915
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Allow enemies their space to hate; they will destroy themselves in the process.
-Lisa Du