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Rachel Maddow independently confirms NBC News told Ronan Farrow to hit “pause” on his reporting of Harvey Weinstein

Rachel Maddow is my hero.

The MSNBC anchor on Friday looked at the reporting that went into the Harvey Weinstein story and other stories that formed the basis of the MeToo movement, and the conflicting accounts of Ronan Farrow and NBC News about what kept Farrow’s reporting from being published by NBC News.

Maddox unloaded on NBC News executives about the organization’s handling of Farrow’s reporting on Weinstein, and later, its handling of allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against ousted Today show anchor Matt Lauer.

In a stunning 16-minute monologue Friday that preceded an interview with Farrow, himself a former NBC News employee, Maddow openly questioned why higher-ups at her parent company did not invite an external firm to investigate the Weinstein debacle or claims that Lauer exhibited inappropriate workplace behavior.

“Accusations that people in positions of authority in this building may have been complicit in some way, in shielding those guys from accountability, those accusations are very, very hard to stomach,” she said. “And I can tell you inside this building, this issue — the Weinstein story having to leave the building to get told, and combine that with… the Access Hollywood tape/Billy Bush story also having to leave this building in order to get told — the amount of consternation this has caused among the rank and file people who work here would be almost impossible for me to overstate.”

Maddow then revealed that she had “independently confirmed” that NBC News ordered Farrow to hit “pause” on his reporting of Harvey Weinstein, a story he eventually took to The New Yorker that earned him a Pulitzer Prize. She also confirmed that NBCUniversal has agreed to release NBC News employees from contractual clauses that could prevent them from disclosing their experience with sexual harassment.


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