why they would be protecting matt lauer. the obvious answer is he made a ton of money for the network. he was there for over 20 years and the today show this past year brought $500 million in advertising revenue. the show is a big moneymaker, but there are other questions. we ve had many women and many sources and are reporting telus that they did raise their concerns about matt lauer s conduct. of course nbc s statement said they were only aware of one claim, but i think they re referring to an official hr complaint and there being a paper trail. people raise concerns, they spoke to managers, and nothing was done. melissa: that s a really important part of this story for our audience to understand and it s a huge change that is happened. when something happened in the past, we would go in and talk to a manager, but your only choice was talking to a manager, talking to hr, or hiring an
fa affairs. paul ryan even addresses this in his book, top of the morning. but it s one of those situations, what did management know? did management know anything about it? and if they did know something act it, why didn t they do anything about it until someone came forward with a formal complaint. maybe we should start to get involved, even if there s no formal hr complaint. having written about this and you ve been doing this for a while, do you believe management didn t know, as they say? i think it s possible, you know, these companies have lots of different ranks of supervisors. i think it s possible maybe some supervisors might have heard whispers of this in the past and maybe looked tor eed the other . whether it reached the top, top levels, that s another question entirely. these companies are hire aeraril in nature. we saw the same thing at vice
this happened with matt lauer. clearly the evidence was so compelling in having a formal hr complaint probably helped that process along. if you think about a year ago when we had a lot of similar issues happening at fox news, it took a few weeks and a lot of investigations before real action started happening. yeah. listen, fascinating what s happening, not only in this business, but in other businesses. and i think we re going to see it i will be interested to see when it trickles down to the cashier in the store or the waitress, or someone who works in an office, because i think it s going to have that effect. but amazing reporting. thank you all for coming on and talking about this very important topic. when we come back, we re going to talk about matt lauer, this story, how it relates to hillary clinton, and donald trump. when we come back. (avo) when you have type 2 diabetes, you manage your a1c,
evidence was so compelling and having a formal hr complaint probably really helped that process along, if you think about a year ago, when we had a lot of similar issues happening at fox news, it took a few weeks and a lot of investigations before real action started happening. yeah, listen, this is fascinating what s happening, not only in this business, but in had other businesses. i think we re going to see it. i ll be interested to see when it trickles down. i think it s going to have that effect. amazing reporting, thank you for coming on and talking about this important topic, we re going to talk about matt lauer, this sto story, how it relates to hillary clinton and donald trump. and i had fallen asleep. (scrappy barks) (amanda) he was totally freaked out, digging and pawing at me. and when i woke up i realized that i was in anaphylaxis and went to the emergency room.
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