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Megyn Kelly Employee Fired After Alleging Harassment at Show That Specializes in Covering Harassment: Report
Late last year, Megyn Kelly’s show finally seemed to find its groove with audiences once the #MeToo movement gathered steam. Following the case of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged decadeslong pattern of sexual abuse—and the numerous allegations against other powerful men in other C-suites in other industries—Kelly’s show focused in on covering harassment, and its ratings (finally)…
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Hoda Kotb Will Earn a Fraction of What the Alleged Sexual Predator Who Preceded Her Made
Welcome to 2018, where bad men will no longer helm morning shows at major news networks, but where the women of color chosen to replace them will still be paid a fraction of their predecessors’ salaries. So it seems with Hoda Kotb, the effervescent and charismatic co-anchor of the show Today. Kotb, who was called…
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MSNBC Live Anchor Craig Melvin Being Considered to Replace Matt Lauer on Today Show: Report
The Today show is a-searching for someone to take up the space that longtime host Matt Lauer was rightly booted off of after being accused of sexual misconduct, and it looks as if MSNBC Live anchor Craig Melvin is in the running. A source told Entertainment Tonight that the 38-year-old Melvin, who anchors MSNBC Live…
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Cue the Violins, It’s Time for Matt Lauer’s Apology
And, now, for one of the most predictable parts of this horrid news cycle, the part in which the serial harasser makes the heartfelt apology. This time, it’s Matt Lauer’s turn. The bulk of the top story for Thursday’s Today show—the morning show Lauer anchored for two decades—was spent on his apology. It was read…
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Who the Hell at NBC Approved Matt Lauer’s in-Office Sex Dungeon?
By now you’ve heard that Matt Lauer was summarily drop-kicked from the Today show Wednesday morning after NBC executives learned of his “inappropriate sexual behavior.” As it turns out, completely coincidentally, multiple outlets had been working on stories about Lauer’s long-term harassment of women at NBC. On Wednesday afternoon, Variety published a piece that spilled…
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Matt Lauer Fired From Today Show for ‘Inappropriate Sexual Behavior’
Matt Lauer, longtime host of the Today show on NBC, has been fired after a colleague came forward to NBC executives Monday night with a detailed complaint about sexual misconduct on the part of the leading morning-news anchor. NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack sent out a memo to network employees Wednesday morning announcing Lauer’s termination…
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NBC in ‘Total Panic’ After Megyn Kelly’s New Show Scores Really High With Old White People. What Did They Expect?
NBC decided to cast aside God’s treasure, Tamron Hall, to invest in noted deplorable Megyn Kelly, and now NBC executives are in a reported panic as Kelly seems to appeal only to old white people. And the real question here is: What did NBC expect? Before coming to NBC, Kelly was an anchor for Fox…
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Tamron Hall to Get Her Own Daytime Talk Show After Leaving Today Show
On Wednesday, Weinstein Television announced that it is co-creating a show with Tamron Hall, former Today-show host and MSNBC anchor. Hall announced her departure from MSNBC and the Today show in February, after her contract ended at the end of the month. According to People magazine, Hall ended her time on the show after learning…
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Even George W. Bush Is Against Trump’s Hatred of the Media
During his presidency, George W. Bush was destroyed by the media and Saturday Night Live on a consistent basis; but while we can all agree that Dubya wasn’t the brightest light bulb to ever light-bulb, he took his ribbing gracefully. During an exclusive sit-down with Today’s Matt Lauer, the former president noted that the media…