Lauer, 59, had been with the “Today” show since 1994. He became the co-anchor in 1998.
“While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twenty years he’s been at NBC News,” Lack continued, “we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident. Our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected, and to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences. No matter who the offender, we are deeply saddened by this turn of events but we will face it together as a news organization — and do it in as transparent a manner as we can.”
I find it interesting NBC would bring up the issue of Core Values; quite frankly it might appear to be the first time NBC was aware that Core Values exist. I took my puppy to the veterinarian yesterday and one of the first things they did was conduct a core sample to see if she had worms. Maybe that’s the kind of core values NBC claims to have. How’s that for imagery?
For a company that is supposed to report the news, NBC would seem to be in the business of hiding the news in order to keep their own from being exposed. Their coverage, or lack thereof, during the past presidential campaign and election would be one of many as can be summed up in an article by Wayne Allyne Root written back on August 10, 2016.
“It’s so bad that NBC News now stands for NO BAD CLINTON NEWS.”
Root went on to destroy the credibility of NBC as they failed to report anything on Hillary Clinton other than pure fluff rather than inform the public of the criminal nature of their pre-ordained President.
When a real news item happened like, the bombing in Barcelona by radical Islam terrorists that killed and maimed innocent folks, “NBC gave the Barcelona terrorist attack four minutes and 32 seconds of total airtime while they gave Trump related stories seven minutes and 34 seconds. Time totals don’t include teasers or commercials.”
This list could go on for quite a bit. Some of you might not be old enough to remember back in 1993 when NBC rigged a GM pickup truck’s gas tanks with incendiary explosives so it would ‘prove’ how dangerous those trucks were.
“In an extraordinary public apology, NBC said Tuesday night that it erred in staging a fiery test crash of a General Motors pickup truck for its “Dateline NBC” news program and agreed to settle a defamation suit filed by the auto maker.”
About the only Core Values NBC have come with a fake applause sign as a means of improving viewer ratings…and even those ratings are in question.
I’ll close with my original thought; does NBC have any Core Values, something other than a lust for money and power?
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I have a theory. OK, I'll admit that I always have a theory, but here is this one.
My theory is that in spite of the Stock Market and unemployment rates trumpeted (pun intended) by our government, that our economy is NOT recovering and instead is slowly contracting.
There are lots of evidences for this (perhaps for an article later), but for the sake of argument, let's say our economy is contracting. When revenue for coroporations decreases slowly over a long period of time how do corporations handle the decrease? For short periods of time companies can float decreased revenue from liquid assets and cash savings, but once the liquid assets are depleted companies must either increase revenue or decrease expenses and since buildings and equipment are hard to liquidate the easiest way to decrease spending is to lay off or fire employees.
We all know that many businesses are seeing income reductions, especially entertainment businesses. Sports, movies, theme parks, travel, and other entertainment businesses are tigntening belts as income is reduced.
In NASCAR for example, the racing is more exciting than it has ever been, but Top-tier Championship caliber drivers are not being resigned in droves! Why? The drivers readily tell us that sponsorship dollars are drying up. NASCAR'S most popular driver for a dozen or more years, Dale Earnhardt Jr admitted that the days of the big dollar contracts are fading away. We have had three consecutive years of multiple big name drivers leaving the sport to be replaced by younger and much cheaper replacement drivers.
I think that the media and movie industry are also forced to tighten their belts, and there is no better way to get rid of huge contracts than to fire big dollar personalities for sexual harassment.
I'm not saying these people are all innocent, most are likely guilty, but these corporations knew about this behavior for years and did nothing. Now that getting rid of high dollar personalities makes good business sense, they can use the excuse of sexual harassment to justify getting rid of them.
I will reiterate, contracting revenue is not the only cause, but I'm certain it is a major contributer to this rash of firings, otherwise these companies would have fired these dirtbsgs years ago.
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