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About these things. based on your reporting from what you just described an ongoing reporting since the book, it sounds like you think that women will come forward now once theyve been released. >> that will be their choice but women felt constrained, they were agonized over that and i think this will go a long way towards making them feel that they can discuss this openly. >> why do you think that you were told to pause for the reporting on your weinstein story at nbc news? i was able to indepe...

Employee who believes that they cannot disclose their experience with sexual harassment as a result of a confidently or non-disparagement provision in the separation agreement should contact nbcuniversal and we will release them from that perceived obligation. so thats new. thats news. as to whether or not any external review will be done of the handling of the weinstein story and why that story couldnt be broken here, but it later broke with another news organization? whether the company would ...

This building, this issue, the weinstein story, having to leave the building in order to get told and combine that with another previous gigantic story on a related subject, the "access hollywood" tape with billy bush, leaving this building to get told. the amount of consternation here would be almost impossible to overstate. ive been through a lot of ups and downs in this company since ive been here. it would be impossible to overstate the consternation in this building around this issue. since...

Confidentiality clauses dont constrain women from talking about these things. based on your reporting from what you just described an ongoing reporting since the book, it sounds like you think that women will come forward now once theyve been released. >> that will be their choice but women felt constrained, they were agonized over that and i think this will go a long way towards making them feel that they can discuss this openly. >> why do you think that you were told to pause for the reporting...

Oppenheim, the president of nbc news, on six occasions ordering us to stop reporting. the head underneath him eight times to stop reporting that eventually escalated to ordering us to cancel interviews. you can judge for yourself whether what we had was enough. we had a tape of weinstein admitting to sexual assault and multiple named women in every version of the story but thats actually not the point. the order to stop was unjournalistic and thats not just my account but working level producers...

Amidst this atmosphere of creative indemnification and pressu amidst this creative intimidation and pressure, the story he was working on weinstein almost didnt get told and farrow said thats because his employer for the first several months of his reporting, slow walked and even at times, tried to stop his reporting. farrow said he was repeatedly told to, pause any new reporting while reviewed by increasingly higher-level executives at nbc, that some executives seemed to feel the weinstein stor...

Quote, any former nbc news employee who believes that they cannot disclose their experience with sexual harassment as a result of a confidentially or non-disparagement provision in the separation agreement should contact nbcuniversal and we will release them from that perceived obligation. so thats new. thats news. as to whether or not any external review will be done of the handling of the weinstein story and why that story couldnt be broken here, but it later broke with another news organizati...

Once again, we stand by it. so since ronan farrows weinstein reporting and the saga to get it to print described in his book, you should know that he has gone on to break stories about decades worth of allegations of sexual harassment and assault by the chairman of cbs, les moonves, one of the most powerful in the history of the country. led him to resign last year. ronan farrow reported the story of four women who accuse new yorks attorney general ed sneiderman of physical abuse. he resigned th...

But ran in the new yorker magazine, and included the most serious allegations from weinstein to that point. three allegations of rape. nbc news strenously denied that, but said it was not ready for network tv in august 2017. the network was prepared to continue working on the story to get it into shape, but that ronan wanted to move more quickly and so they allowed him to go to a print outlet instead. according to nbc, when ronan farrow left, had no weinstein accusers on the record. farrow said ...

Hard to stomach. and i can tell you that inside this building, this issue, the weinstein story, having to leave the building in order to get told and combine that with another previous gigantic story on a related subject, the "access hollywood" tape with billy bush, leaving this building to get told. the amount of consternation here function rank and file who work here would be almost impossible for me to overstate. ive been through a lot of ups and downs in this company since ive been here. it ...