On NBC today, Megyn Kelly dismantled her bosses claims that Ronan Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé of Harvey Weinstein wasn’t ready for prime time.
Kelly reported that Farrow spoke to one of Weinstein’s accusers, and despite her credible claim of rape in an on-the-record admission, NBC News tried to kill the story.
This latest bombshell is merely the latest in a long line that indicates the liberal megadonor’s crimes were more widely known than many want to admit.
Per Variety:
Returning to air after the long Labor Day weekend — which was anything but a quiet holiday weekend for NBC News, after multiple reports broke regarding the news organization’s handling of Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein reporting — Kelly told her viewers that McGowan and former producer Rich McHugh both claimed to her that McGowan went on the record and NBC News chose not to run the story.
“Late last night, Rose McGowan and Rich McHugh, the former NBC producer, both challenged that assertion, telling ‘Megyn Kelly Today’ that McGowan did go on the record with NBC in February 2017, after that on-camera interview with Farrow, and that she did name Harvey Weinstein as her rapist,” Kelly said on-air.
“There’s a lot to unpack,” Kelly continued during her broadcast. “Whatwere seeing here is it McHugh… has now gone public with his accusations that NBC, he claims, blocked the story — NBC vehemently denying that, and saying they didn’t have anybody, they didn’t have anybody on the record…And Rose McGowan telling us that she was on the record for months and they didn’t use her statement. NBC saying if that’s true, it wasn’t communicated up the line. That’s a dispute between NBC and the reporters on the story, but this is getting really in the weeds and it’s getting really uncomfortable.”
Kelly’s broadcast comes as many journalists have had to cover their own news organizations throughout the Me Too movement, from Savannah Guthrie announcing that Matt Lauer had been fired on the “Today” show, to Gayle King announcing Charlie Rose’s misconduct on-air on “CBS This Morning.”
NBC News did not immediately respond to request for comment on Kelly’s statement but earlier had stated any assertion that the left-wing organization tried to torpedo the story an “outright lie.”
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