A New Book Details NBC's Culture of Hypermasculinity and Hypersexualized, Submissive Women
(Poor Katie Holmes. I hope she’s OK. She might’ve been blinking “H-E-L-P” but we didn’t recognize the danger she was in.)
Page Six – A group of women with fresh claims of sexual harassment against Matt Lauer has spoken out for the first time to Ronan Farrow, The Post can reveal.
Farrow has also spoken to the woman whose initial complaint to NBC led to the disgraced former “Today” show anchor’s firing.
She has made the difficult decision to come forward and name herself in Farrow’s explosive new book, “Catch and Kill,” The Post is told. …
While her relationship has been characterized in the past as an “affair” by NBC sources, her lawyer Ari Wilkenfeld told The Post: “At no point in time, did I say or do anything to encourage NBC to downplay my client’s allegations. We clearly indicated an absence of consent.” …
There are believed to be new allegations, as a source said: “A number of women with new claims spoke with Ronan.” …
Farrow’s book also details his reporting on the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
It also features more on his claims that NBC refused to air his investigation into the disgraced movie producer’s alleged sex crimes.
Farrow has consistently claimed that NBC pushed his reporting to the sidelines after it was blocked by network bigwigs, prompting him to take his reporting to the New Yorker. …
The upcoming book says it details “surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability and silence victims of abuse,” according to Little, Brown and Company.
This is shocking. An absolute outrage. But should come as no surprise given NBC’s appalling and disgusting culture of toxic masculinity. Where the company actually paid to have a rape button installed in Matt Lauer’s 30 Rock office to lock the door when he was committing another of his serial sexual assaults. Or where he reportedly:
once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified.
On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office, and then dropped his pants, showing her his penis. After the employee declined to do anything, visibly shaken, he reprimanded her for not engaging in a sexual act.
So major kudos for Ronan Farrow for continuing to dig at the truth, despite the surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men trying to silence the victims of the abuse at the hands of males like Lauer and Harvey Weinstein. A lesser journalist wouldn’t have done all this investigating, interviewing the victims or asking for statements from the accused. A lesser journalist wouldn’t have been interested in the truth. They would’ve simply checked the NBC News page’s comments section or quoted some book author or a couple of college professors who study the intersection of digital media and race, gender and sexuality. Thank God for the prize-winning work Farrow is doing on this very serious issue.
And based on what we already know – before “Catch and Kill” comes out and these new allegations from still more victims of abuse are heard – we shouldn’t be surprised. NBC is guilty of a lot worse than just lazy hit pieces posing as journalism while squashing actual investigate reporting on powerful sexual predators who abuse their authority by preying on vulnerable females. It’s clear that NBC exists as a parallel culture where the gender roles consist of hypermasculine, sports-loving men and hypersexualized, submissive women.
It’s tragic. But it’s also enraging. I know I’d hate to be employed by a company that lets such things happen.