Ryan Seacrest accuser says NBC mysteriously canceled her scheduled appearance on 'Megyn Kelly Today'


Suzie Hardy, the woman who accused Ryan Seacrest of sexual harassment, said she was scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Megyn Kelly Today” to discuss her allegations but the network abruptly canceled -- and she thinks she knows why.

"I could have gone with a number of shows, but I picked Megyn Kelly because of other interviews she had done supporting women in the #MeToo movement," Hardy told the Daily Mail.

Seacrest is a cash cow for E!, which is owned by NBC’s parent company, NBCUniversal. He is an executive at E! News and produces the hit reality program “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” Meanwhile, Kelly has used her platform to speak with victims of sexual harassment on a regular basis since her show started last fall.

Hardy said she was scheduled to film an interview for Kelly’s daytime talk show on March 16 that would air on March 19, but producers canceled without providing a reason.

“Everything was set, she told the The Daily Mail. “But the morning of our flight, they called my lawyer and abruptly canceled. No explanation was given.”

Hardy publicly came forward earlier this year, accusing Seacrest of grinding his erect penis against her while clad only in underwear, grabbing her vagina and slapping her bottom with such force that she had a large, visible welt for hours. She doesn’t think that Seacrest’s powerful role at NBCUniversal's E! and her scheduled appearance being canceled are a coincidence.


'It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out,' she told the Daily Mail.


Suzie Hardy said she was scheduled to discuss her allegations against Ryan Seacrest on NBC but it was abruptly canceled.

Seacrest has vehemently denied sexual misconduct accusations made against him by Hardy, his former stylist, while E! stands by an external investigation conducted earlier this year that a spokesperson said failed to produce sufficient evidence to substantiate those allegations.

Hardy even mocked the external investigation during her talk with the Daily Mail, saying many of the people she said witnessed the alleged harassment were not contacted.

“Many of them told me they don't want to be named in the press, but if they're subpoenaed, they will testify, and they'll tell the truth,” she said.

The New York Post reported in January that Kelly upset NBC executives by attempting to book former “E! News” host Catt Sadler after Sadler walked away from her gig on NBC’s sister station last month because of gender wage gap issues.

“They are appalled [Kelly] would use their own airtime to criticize the company,” an insider told the Post.


NBC News chairman Andy Lack has seen his department sit on at least two other stories related to sexual misconduct.

Last month, NBCUniversal’s own “Today” show aired a segment detailing accusations by an eyewitness who corroborated Hardy’s shocking claims. The eyewitness, an anonymous former colleague of Seacrest, told “Today’ that he witnessed inappropriate behavior on “multiple occasions” and was interviewed during the external investigation that didn’t result in any discipline.

E! allowed Seacrest to host the network’s red carpet pre-show at Sunday's Academy Awards amid the controversy, and ABC continues to allow him to emcee the retooled “American Idol.”

If it turns out that NBC executives killed Hardy’s scheduled appearance on “Megyn Kelly Today” to protect Seacrest, it wouldn’t be the first time that Peacock Network brass raised eyebrows over a lack of transparency regarding sexual misconduct. NBC News chairman Andy Lack and his top deputy, Noah Oppenheim, famously spiked Ronan Farrow’s reporting that would have outed Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator months before the celebrity scion took his work to the prestigious New Yorker to much acclaim.

Shortly after NBC News star Matt Lauer was fired for sexual misconduct last year, Lack announced a “culture assessment” of the division he oversees. He installed an assortment of other bureaucratic efforts to combat sex harassment, such as focus groups and mandatory training on workplace behavior. None of the steps taken by NBC News place any blame on Lack or Oppenheim, who are also responsible for spiking two of the biggest stories in recent memory: Farrow’s reporting and the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women.

It remains unclear why Lack or Oppenheim decided against running the stories, but Farrow is now receiving Pulitzer Prize buzz and the Trump tape was leaked from within NBC to The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, who is Oppenheim's friend from the esteemed Harvard University, and is now an NBC News contributor.

NBC did not immediately respond to request for comment.

 

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow outlines how Trump’s new national security adviser is already in legal trouble

 

Ann Curry details climate of ‘verbal, sexual’ harassment at NBC in the wake of Matt Lauer firing

Former NBC “Today” co-anchor Ann Curry revealed that she was not surprised by allegations against former “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer, who was fired in November for inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.

What did Curry say?
Speaking on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday, Curry discussed allegations against her former co-worker.

“I’m not surprised by the allegations,” Curry said in her first public interview since news of the allegations against Lauer surfaced. “I can [also] say that I would be surprised if many women did not understand that there was a climate of verbal harassment that existed. I think it would be surprising if someone said they didn’t see that. It was verbal sexual harassment.”

“I’m not trying to hurt people,” she added. “I know what it’s like to be publicly humiliated. I never did anything wrong to be publicly humiliated, and I don’t want to cause that pain to someone else.”


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Curry left “Today” in 2012 , a move which was said to involve Lauer, and left the network altogether a few years later in 2015.

Curry reiterated the fact that she didn’t want to hurt anyone when CBS co-host Gayle King pressed her for more details. She later said that she believes that people speaking out about these types of injustices is important.

“This is about a power imbalance, where women are not valued as much as men,” she explained. “I’m not talking about people being attracted to other people. I’m talking about people in a workplace who are abusing their power and women and men are suffering. And I think the fact that people are speaking out is important, and the fact that we are moving against this imbalance of power is absolutely overdue.”



What’s the background on Lauer’s scandal?
Lauer was fired in November almost immediately after the network received allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said that the complaint the network received “may not have been an isolated incident” and noted that Lauer’s alleged behaviors “represented, after serious review, a clear violation” of the network’s professional standards.

In the days after Lauer’s termination, more detailed, deviant reports surfaced, including outright accusations of sexual assault.

Lauer later issued a public apology and said that there were “no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions.”

Lauer’s statement added that “repairing the damage will take a lot of time and soul searching” and noted that the broadcaster is “committed to beginning that effort.”

NBC officially replaced Lauer with “Today” co-anchor Hoda Kotb.

 

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NBC humiliated when Ronan Farrow wins Pulitzer for Weinstein expose after Peacock passed
By Brian Flood | Fox News

Ronan Farrow wins a Pulitzer Prize after NBC News executives Noah Oppenheim and Andy Lack spiked his reporting on Harvey Weinstein. (Tolga TEZCAN)

NBC News was humiliated on Monday when Ronan Farrow won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for a story that the network mysteriously decided not to run – letting the New Yorker claim an award that could have gone to the Peacock Network.



Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy announced at Columbia University that Farrow’s expose in the prestigious New Yorker on now-disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein shared American’s most glamourous journalism prize when it split the public service award with the New York Times.

Canedy called Farrow’s work “explosive, impactful journalism” that exposed powerful sexual predators and launched the #MeToo movement. Farrow’s reporting helped expose Weinstein as a sexual predator, though the truth about the disgraced Hollywood mogul could have surfaced months earlier if it hadn’t been spiked by embattled NBC News President Noah Oppenheim and his boss, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack.

NBC claimed that Farrow’s story as they’d seen it did not meet their editorial standards. After the Peacock Network passed, The New Yorker jumped at the opportunity to publish Farrow's work and was rewarded with the Pulitzer Prize.

In various media appearances to promote his Weinstein reporting, Farrow took a series of jabs at NBC News for refusing to air his Weinstein reporting, implying that Lack and Oppenheim had maintained a “veil of silence.”

Farrow bluntly rebutted NBC’s contention that his reporting was not up to snuff in an appearance on MSNBC the day his New Yorker piece was published.


Last year, HuffPost reported that “NBC tried to put a stop” to an interview with a woman accusing Weinstein of rape so Farrow “wound up paying out of his own pocket for a camera crew to film an interview.”


Ronan Farrow took his reporting to the New Yorker after NBC News passed.

Farrow has since left NBC for HBO, where he will produce documentaries. HBO has long considered the gold standard in that department.

Farrow, son of actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen, also published a still photo from an interview he conducted with actress and Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan that never aired on NBC.

“Farrow knew he could not count on support from NBC News,” The Hollywood Reporter wrote earlier this year. “Multiple sources tell THR that Farrow was told to stand down, though NBC has strongly disputed this and executives have stressed that Farrow did not have one accuser willing to be identified at the time.”

NBC’s critics have pointed out that Oppenheim, the news president, moonlights as a Hollywood screenwriter and had a conflict of interest in passing judgment over Weinstein, long the premier producer of “prestige” Hollywood films. Oppenheim had also sat at a small table with Weinstein at the exclusive “Time 100” dinner in New York last April, when Farrow’s investigation was well underway.

As all this is going on, Lack and Oppenheim have still not explained why they sat on another one of the biggest stories of the decade: the “Access Hollywood” tape of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women. The tape of Trump caught on a hot mic was leaked from within NBC to The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, who is Oppenheim's friend from Harvard, where they worked as editors together on the student newspaper. Fahrenthold is now a contributor for NBC News.

NBC continues to struggle with issues pertaining to sexual harassment and misconduct, as parent company Comcast says it is conducting an investigation to determine who knew about now-disgraced former “Today” co-host Matt Lauer’s sexual misbehavior and when they knew it. However, Lauer was ousted nearly five months ago and the network has not provided any transparency on its findings. Some insiders don’t even believe there is an actual investigation taking place.

NBC has not responded to multiple requests for an update.

Observers have recently pondered whether NBC executives’ reluctance to expose other big stars’ bad behavior -- via the "Access Hollywood' tape or Farrow's investigation -- is linked to what Vanity Fair once called a “glass houses” problem.

NBC and parent company NBCUniversal did not respond to a request for comment regarding Farrow’s win and whether or not the network has investigated why the story was spiked.

The Pulitzer Prizes recognize the best journalism of 2017 in newspapers, magazines and websites with 14 categories with another seven prizes for arts and music. The awards started back in 1917.

 

MSNBC in tough spot as NBC News legend Tom Brokaw, a regular contributor, faces sex misconduct allegations
By Brian Flood | Fox News

Tom Brokaw accused of sexual harassment by former NBC correspondent. Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz has the details.

NBC News and MSNBC are facing a tough decision after regular “Morning Joe” panelist and NBC News legend Tom Brokaw was accused of sexual misconduct — with the accusations coming roughly six months after the morning show dumped regular contributor Mark Halperin.



“Morning Joe” quickly canned Halperin, who was also regular panelist, in October after he was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. Like the accusations against Brokaw, those against Halperin happened many years ago. But Halperin wasn’t NBC News royalty like Brokaw, who has denied all the accusations against him.

Perhaps even more notably, NBC fired its biggest news star, Matt Later, in November amid allegations of sexual misconduct.


Ironically, the Brokaw allegations could save embattled MSNBC star Joy Reid, who is in the middle of her own scandal after holes were poked in her story that homophobic slurs were planted on her pre-fame blog by hackers. (NBC News)

Brokaw’s current title is “NBC News special correspondent,” and he makes appearances on “Morning Joe” and NBC News programs such as “Meet the Press” as part of that role. MSNBC recently used Brokaw, 78, on air for a tribute to Barbara Bush but his "Morning Joe" appearances have become less frequent in recent memory.

MSNBC and NBC News did not respond when asked if Brokaw would continue to appear on “Morning Joe” or other MSNBC programs. NBC News has not yet publicly commented on Brokaw since the allegations were published, but the story was covered on NBC's “Today.”

The newsman still commands enormous influence inside NBC and is believed to have played a key role in deposing his “Nightly News” successor, Brian Williams, after Williams got caught embellishing stories. Brokaw, ever a savvy operator, is also believed to have influence with the bosses at NBCUniversal and its parent company Comcast.


MSNBC quickly dumped Mark Halperin when he was accused of sexual harassment in 2017. (Reuters)


According to The Washington Post, Brokaw made unwanted moves on Linda Vester, a former NBC correspondent and former Fox News anchor, twice during the 1990s, including a move to forcibly kiss Vester, who was in her 20s at the time.

The report also detailed the claims of an anonymous woman who told the outlet Brokaw acted inappropriately toward her during her time as a production assistant in the 1990s. Brokaw was the anchor of “NBC Nightly News” at the time.

Ironically, the Brokaw allegations could save embattled MSNBC star Joy Reid, who is in the middle of her own scandal after holes were poked in her story that homophobic slurs were planted on her pre-fame blog by hackers. NBC News chairman Andy Lack has remained silent on the Brokaw and Reid situations and has been criticized for a lack of transparency amid a series of sexual harassment.

“How can they fire a black woman for some insensitive comments she made years ago when they keep on board a millionaire white male sexual predator and the white male executives who’ve enabled people like him?” an NBC insider posited to Fox News.

Meanwhile, “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski upset some of Halperin’s accusers last December when she reported on air that she had tried to arrange a meeting so the now-disgraced political analyst could apologize.

Brzezinski said Halperin was "more than willing to meet with his accusers and apologize with them face to face." The MSNBC star said she “actually tried to offer him to them” but the women “don't want to talk to him.”

It’s fair to ponder whether or not Brezinski will offer a similar deal to Brokaw – but the backlash to her Halperin comment makes it unlikely.

Ten of Halperin’s accusers including Emily Miller, Katie Glenn, Dianna May, Ella Spektor McManus and Lara Setrakian sent a letter to MSNBC following Brzezinski’s comments. The letter, signed by “Ten victims of Mark Halperin,” was posted on Facebook and stated that Brzezinski was “inappropriate” for suggesting such a meeting and that she has a conflict of interest because of her “personal friendship” with Halperin.


Will Tom Brokaw be treated differently than Mark Halperin because of his iconic status at NBC News?

“Sexual harassment and assault is illegal in the workplace, and represents a violation of the policies and standards of NBC News," the letter said. "It is an unethical and harmful request to ask that sexual assault victims confront their accusers in person and, in particular, on live TV.”

The letter went on to ask that Brzezinski to practice “higher standards of editorial judgment, compassion and human decency.”

Brzezinski responded, saying “Morning Joe” was trying to have an honest conversation about sexual harassment and sexual assault.

“The issue has hit close to home given that Mark Halperin was on our show. I have spent a lot of time talking to some of his accusers and to Mark himself. Often I bring up the issue on our show because I think it would be less than genuine to talk about the growing number of cases without recognizing that a former member of our team acted very badly,” Brzezinski said.


NBC News chairman Andy Lack has remained silent on the Brokaw and Reid situations and has been criticized for a lack of transparency amid a series of sexual harassment. (NBC News)

It will be interesting to see if Brokaw is treated differently by the MSNBC executives who acted quickly with Halperin.

Brokaw actually spoke out about the #MeToo movement on MSNBC, without mentioning his own behavior. “I do think we need to have a healthier, well-defined dialogue, if you will, and I’m not sure how we launch into it,” he said in December 2017.

 

Which insensitive comments would those be? The ones she's denying she made, and is insisting they're the work of a hacker. (Which was completely idiotic on her part, because the web archives are mere "snapshots in time". And Yahoo's Internet Wayback Machine is not the only archiving service.)


Joy Reid wants you to believe hackers infiltrated the Library of Congress just to make her look bad


4/25/18

Joy Reid's response to reports alleging she published very “ problematic " articles on her now-defunct blog, The Reid Report, is becoming less believable by the day.

Rather than apologize, like she did the last time Internet sleuths uncovered anti-gay rhetoric on her old website, Reid is asking us to believe she is the victim of a vast conspiracy. The way she tells it, she didn’t actually write posts like that one that suggested Harriet Miers is a closeted lesbian or the one that claimed “adult gay men tend to be attracted to very young, post-pubescent types.”

Rather, Reid said this weekend, “external” hackers infiltrated her since-deleted blog and “manipulated material” to “include offensive and hateful references that are fabricated and run counter to my personal beliefs and ideology.” She claims she has asked the FBI to help her find the people who’ve wronged her.

Reid also trotted out an independent security “expert” Tuesday who claimed he "discovered that login information used to access the blog was available on the Dark Web and that fraudulent entries – featuring offensive statements – were entered with suspicious formatting and time stamps.”

Oh, come on.

Reid deleted her old blog. That much is true. But that's not where certain amateur detectives claim they found her old scribblings, many of which were published circa 2006. The people uncovering Reid's alleged blog post have relied mostly on the Wayback Machine , which preserves online content even if it has been deleted by the author.

This leaves us with a few options. Either Reid’s supposed hackers infiltrated her blog with “Dark Web” credentials more than 10 years ago in the hopes that it would be archived and that someone would find it in the next decade, after she had made it big and gotten her own show (um ... yeah) — or someone hacked the Wayback Machine itself and manipulated it with anti-gay posts they hoped to falsely attribute to the MSNBC host.

As to the first option: Puh-lease.

As to the second: The people who maintain the Wayback Machine published a statement this week saying they’ve found nothing to substantiate Reid’s “claims of manipulation.”

This brings us to a bigger problem for Reid: Wayback isn’t the only website archiving Internet content. There's also the Library of Congress, whose records also falsify Reid’s explanation. CNNMoney reported Tuesday: "The Library of Congress archive reviewed by CNNMoney … contains the disputed posts and lists them as having been archived on January 12, 2006.”

Translation: At least one of the Reid’s "fake posts" is definitely real. Either that, or these shadowy anti-Reid operatives hacked the Library of Congress.

Or — hello, Occam's Razor — Reid wrote these recently uncovered posts, just like she wrote the earlier ones for which he apologized.

No one would blame you for taking the Wayback Machine’s and the Library of Congress’ word over her increasingly fantastical version of events. You have no reason to doubt either group, whereas you’d be a fool to take Reid at her word .

 

More denials and claims of "I was hacked" in 3...2...1...


JOY REID'S BLOG CALLED ISLAM 'INCOMPATIBLE' WITH FREE SPEECH


4/27/18

Newly unearthed posts from MSNBC host Joy Reid’s now-defunct blog contain content that is not only anti-gay, but anti-Muslim.

Reid recently claimed that her website had been hacked and that the homophobic posts were fabricated to smear her. But the posts, found by The Washington Free Beacon on Thursday, appeared to have been archived by the Library of Congress since 2006.

One post reflected that Reid saidan excerpt from the blog Mark in Mexico that made derogatory claims about Muslims “makes a salient a salient point here,” and quoted it.

“My feeling is that the only reason that a world war between civilizations has not already broken out is that the vast majority of Muslims living in the world today are so desperately poor that they have the time, energy and resources for only the occasional burst of AK-47 fire into the air from the garbage and sewage laden streets outside of their mud huts,” the Mark in Mexico blog wrote. “Give them resources and I fear that they will come after us everywhere that they can find us, which is to say everywhere.”

Another post discovered on Reid’s blog stated that “current iterations of Islam are largely incompatible with Western notions of free speech and expression, and thus, I’d say, with the Bushian dream of Western style democracy for all,” according to Mediaite.



The anti-gay posts included one directed at Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and Samuel Alito, who at the time had not yet been confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

“Oh, look, Orrin Hatch is putting on his Supreme Court knee pads to save Alito,” the post states. “‘Golly, you’re really a swell guy. Can I be on top next time…?’ Jeez…”

Jonathan Nichols, an attorney that Reid hired, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday that he had "both evidence of fraudulent posts and evidence of screenshot manipulation.” But a day later, when the media outlet found screenshots of the posts on the Internet Archive, Nichols admitted, “I’ve become aware of some methodology issues,” and said, “We are looking to resolve the discrepancy.”

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And this bitch acts like she has the right to sit in judgement of Trump?

 

OK, you know your condition is serious if Jill Stein is pointing out how much you're foaming at the mouth over Trump.



Then again, look what "23 & me" revealed.

 

No issue can be considered adequately covered until Stefan Molyneux does a video on it.

 

You guys should have been watching Rachel Maddow tonight. If you had you would know the 40+ questions Mueller wants to ask Trump.

 

Fresh embarrassment for NBC as embattled network has to correct itself on Cohen wiretap story
By Frank Miles, Brian Flood | Fox News


From Joy Reid's homophobic blog posts to the infamous 'Access Hollywood' tapes, a look at scandals that NBC has apparently glossed-over.

For NBC News, it was another in a series of embarrassments on Thursday as it had to correct a story saying federal investigators had placed a wiretap on the phone lines of President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen.



As Fox News is reporting, the feds were monitoring only what calls were being made but weren’t listening in — contrary to NBC’s earlier reporting. The Peacock Network’s major turnabout was made more than four hours after the original story moved online Thursday, when it caused immediate chatter in the cable news universe.

NBC had attributed its original story to two anonymous sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings against Cohen. In an editor’s note preceding the rewritten story, NBC explains that three senior U.S. officials disputed the account, saying that the phones were monitored by a pen register, which records the phone numbers on both ends of the conversation, not the substance of the calls themselves.

The erroneous NBC report added to widespread speculation about what exactly the feds were able to seize in their April raid. Cohen’s lawyers and President Trump’s legal team have been battling in court over access to those materials.

NBC moved its original story online shortly after 1 p.m. on Thursday, and it became immediate fodder on MSNBC and other cable networks. The correction was issued online at 5:27 p.m. with that editor’s note, and was discussed on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press Daily.”

The correction offered ammunition to the nation’s highest-ranked media critic: Trump has frequently criticized the mainstream media for catering to America’s left wing and coastal elite with “fake news.”


The screw-up also gave media watchdogs a chance to mock NBC online for its latest blast of “fake news.”

The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, Glenn Kessler, tweeted that the mistake was “pretty big.”

The correction is just the latest storm for a network reeling from them. It is currently dealing with unflattering stories involving sexual misconduct, secrecy, homophobia and bad decision-making, causing headaches for NBC and its news chairman, Andy Lack.

There’s the controversy over the findings of an internal review to determine who knew about disgraced “Today” host Matt Lauer’s bad behavior but didn’t report it in a timely manner; antigay slurs connected to MSNBC star Joy Reid’s blog posts; and the accusations that legendary anchor Tom Brokaw engaged in forceful and unwanted kissing of then-NBC correspondent Linda Vester in the 1990s.

Also still in play are persistent questions over why NBC sat on two major sex harassment stories: the “Access Hollywood” tape of Trump and the blockbuster reporting on alleged Hollywood sex predator Harvey Weinstein by Ronan Farrow, which won him the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for public service.

Then there’s the foundering and hugely expensive experiment with former Fox News star Megyn Kelly, who reportedly has been dragging down NBC News’ most important show by far, “Today.”

NBC has been silent on the Reid and Brokaw matters, the two most recent humiliations before the news story correction.

“If legendary icons like Matt Lauer and Tom Brokaw can be accused by apparently responsible individuals, the company should act as others have done and dispense with internal investigations and engage a high profile, independent investigator to determine the root causes as well as the specifics of these horrendous accusations,” famed reporter-turned-entrepreneur Porter Bibb previously told Fox News, adding that NBC was “seriously derelict” in not ordering an independent investigation of the entire company’s policies, protocols, and past performance.

 

Once again let's point out that all humans including reporters make mistakes but what responsible reporters and news outlets do when they do make a mistake is correct and retract to get it right. Unlike Fox News that deliberately broadcasts lies and false right wing propaganda and seldom if ever retracts and corrects even when they are caught lying.

And this is actually a testament to how good and accurate the MSM and especially NBC/MSNBC really are. Because everytime a reporter talks to a source there are four possibilities. There is a possibility the reporter will misunderstand the techncalities of what the source is telling them. There is the possibility the source has it wrong. There is the possibility the source is lying to the reporter. And there is the possibility that both the reporter and the source will get it right. And when we consider there are 3 chances to get it wrong and only 1 chance they will get it right its actually amazing that the MSM gets it right about 99% of the time.

And by the way NBC made a mistake when they were misinformed. But MSNBC didn't. Once the mistake was corrected they not only reported the story accurately they also spent a great deal of time reporting that NBC had made a mistake earlier in the day and that was also news.

 

New York Times slams NBC News over Redskins cheerleader scandal after ‘Today’ questions reporting
By Brian Flood | Fox News

The New York Times fired back at NBC News after former cheerleaders went on “Today” and questioned a report the paper published earlier this week.

The New York Times and NBC’s “Today” show are in a feud between elite liberal media organizations over a Gray Lady report that Washington Redskins cheerleaders were treated inappropriately during a 2013 trip to Costa Rica for a calendar shoot.



The NBC morning show welcomed two former Redskins cheerleaders on Friday who wanted to dispute the Times bombshell that cheerleaders were put in an uncomfortable position on the trip that allegedly included topless photo shoots and being forced to accompany men to a night club.

Former cheerleader and team captain Charo Bishop, who was on the trip to Costa Rica, told “Today” that the allegations that women were forced to pose topless are “just simply not true.”

“All optional. Voluntarily. Some girls were excited to do those things,” Bishop said. “In terms of being an escort, that was never a perception I had. I think that being friendly and receptive and welcoming to sponsors is completely different than being an escort.”



Several Washington Redskins cheerleaders claim they were reportedly forced to pose topless and act as escorts during a calendar photo shoot trip to Costa Rica in 2013.

Another former cheerleading captain who attended the Costa Rica trip, Rachel Gill, told the morning show that terms such as “pimped out” and “escort” need to stop.

“It’s absolutely not what happened,” she said.


The Times didn’t appreciate NBC allowing their story to be disputed without an opportunity to respond and took to Twitter to express frustration with the Peacock Network.

".@todayshow, we would’ve appreciated the opportunity to respond to criticism of our journalism, especially after booking Juliet Macur (who broke the story) to appear on your show & then canceling her,” The Times' communications department tweeted with a link to the original report.

The Times also accused NBC of canceling a scheduled appearance by the reporter who broke the story. NBC did not respond to request for comment.

On Wednesday, The Times reported that three dozen cheerleaders made the trip to Occidental Grand Papagayo, an adults-only resort, for the photo shoot and were forced to pose topless and wear body paint. The near-nude photos were never published, the news organization reported.

The Redskins had also invited sponsors – all male – to the photo shoot, and nine of the cheerleaders were chosen to act as personal escorts to a nightclub later that night, The Times reported.

“They weren’t putting a gun to our heads, but it was mandatory for us to go,” one cheerleader, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the newspaper. “We weren’t asked, we were told. Other girls were devastated because we knew exactly what she was doing.”

The cheerleaders felt as though the arrangement was equivalent to being pimped out, though going to the club with the men didn’t involve having sex with them, the newspaper reported. The cheerleaders alleged that their director, Stephanie Jojokian, demanded that they go, though it wasn’t part of their job. The cheerleaders weren’t paid anything aside from cost of the trip, meals and lodging, the Redskins organization told The Times.

“It’s just not right to send cheerleaders out with strange men when some of the girls clearly don’t want to go,” one cheerleader, who was at the club, told The Times. “But unfortunately, I feel like it won’t change until something terrible happens, like a girl is assaulted in some way, or raped. I think teams will start paying attention to this only when it’s too late.”

The Redskins didn’t address the allegations in an initial statement to the Times. However, team President Bruce Allen issued a statement Thursday saying the team was "very concerned by the allegations in the report."

"Based on the dialogue we've had with a number of current and former cheerleaders over the past 48 hours, we've heard very different first-hand that directly contradict many of the details of the ... article," Allen said. "I can promise that once we have completed looking into this matter, if it is revealed that any of our employees acted inappropriately, those employees will face significant repercussions."

Both Gill and Bishop were asked by the Redskins to speak to NBC on behalf of the team, the network reported.

 

Even Ann Coulter Is an MSNBC Fan
MSNBC is thriving because viewers are tuning in for the play-by-play of what they hope will be Trump’s downfall. Even a certain one-time Trumpkin can’t get enough.

 

I enjoyed watching Nixon's resignation speech. I look forward to watching Trump led out of the White House in handcuffs.

 

MSNBC's Joy Reid reportedly sees 'significant decrease in audience size'
By Brian Flood | Fox News

From Joy Reid's homophobic blog posts to the infamous 'Access Hollywood' tapes, a look at scandals that NBC has apparently glossed-over.

MSNBC star Joy Reid’s program “AM Joy” reportedly has been losing viewers since the #Resistance hero backtracked on claims that diabolical hackers were responsible for planting anti-gay rhetoric in her pre-fame blog.



Last month, Reid kinda-sorta admitted to writing homophobic slurs that she’d previously insisted were the work of hackers. After days of speculation about her future, the MSNBC star addressed the situation during the April 28 episode of her show that airs every Saturday and Sunday morning.

“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things,” Reid told her viewers, adding, "The person I am now is not the person I was then."

Contemptor – a media and culture website -- founder Justin Baragona, who was previously a cable news watchdog for Mediaite, broke down Reid’s ratings for her shows that have aired since the controversy erupted. Baragona found that this past Saturday’s 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. ET hours of “AM Joy” finished last among major cable news networks in the key demo of adults age 25-54 – but questioned whether or not it was a “blip or a trend.”

Baragona pointed out that Reid finished second among cable news rivals the previous Saturday when she delivered her quasi-apology for comments dug up by a Twitter user and published by Mediaite. The unearthed posts showed Reid wrote numerous offensive jokes and comments on her now defunct blog, “The Reid Report.”

In a somber statement, Reid admitted the old slurs did not appear to be the result of hacking and apologized profusely for comments she claimed not to remember making.


Initially, Reid apologized for offensive comments she made roughly a decade ago suggesting that Florida Governor Charlie Crist (“Miss Charlie,” as she called him) may be gay, despite no evidence to back up her contention. But when a new raft of offensive comments surfaced ‒ about some lesbians' short haircuts and her objections to seeing men kiss men, among other homophobic remarks ‒ Reid originally claimed she’d been hacked, and MSNBC circulated a much-panned statement from a computer hacking “expert” which sought to make that case.

Now it appears that viewers could be turning away as a result of Reid’s credibility crisis.

“Looking at this three-week snapshot, we definitely see an erosion in viewers on Saturday post-controversy. Her show saw its demo audience drop from 263,000 to 171,000 in the 10 a.m. hour and 245,000 to 150,000 during the 11 a.m. time slot. The total audience fell from 1.28 million to 957,000 at 10 a.m. and 1.24 million to 965,000 at 11 a.m.,” Baragona wrote.

"We can definitely see that the past two weekends have been pretty soft numbers-wise and there has been a significant decrease in audience size on Saturday."

- Contemptor founder Justin Baragona
Baragona pointed out that her Sunday show displayed “little movement these past two weekends,” aside from “minor decreases” since she addressed the homophobic remarks.

The Contemptor founder then asked, “Is Reid witnessing viewers turning away from her show in the wake of the controversy?”

Baragona said, it’s “too early to say” and reminded readers that the news cycle should be taken into account during weekend programing.

“But we can definitely see that the past two weekends have been pretty soft numbers-wise and there has been a significant decrease in audience size on Saturday,” Baragona wrote.

 

Here we go again. Yet more evidence of the GOP war on liberal women.

(Sigh...)
Which is not to be confused with


Woops! I forgot... Joy Reid isn't a Republican.


Joy Reid Blog Mocked ‘Chubbed-Out Shrew’ Rosie O’Donnell, Backed ‘Kick-Ass Funny’ Donald Trump


4/25/18

In a 2007 blog post, MSNBC host Joy Reid attacked TV host Rosie O'Donnell using misogynistic and fat-shaming language and defended future president Donald Trump.

After Reid apologized for old homophobic blog posts in December 2017, her blog "The Reid Report" was effectively taken off of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine thanks to an exclusion request added by the website's operators. But a mirror of the Wayback Machine operated by the Library of Congress remains unaffected, and several of Reid's posts are still visible on that site.

In a January 9th blog post, Reid weighed in on the celebrity feud between "The View" host O'Donnell and Trump.

Nonetheless, the liberal pundit was on Team Donald.

The Library of Congress archived Reid's now-defunct blog post on January 14th, 2007 at 06:52 AM ET. If Reid's website was indeed hacked as she now claims, the hacker would've had to target her site over a decade ago.

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