broadcasting companies is reportedly renewing the contract of its news president after ronan farrow s explosive book claimed he oversaw a massive breach of journalistic integrity. those of the words longtime producer rich mccue, he spoke with tucker carlson tonight. more with new claims. good evening, rich said he urged executives to come clean but instead they chose to stick with the narrative s claiming the story didn t have enough to meet their standards. six weeks later, ronan pharaoh published it in the new yorker and won a pulitzer prize for it. mchugh says he never got clear answers from nbc news president noah oppenheim about why the story was shut down but has learned of the networks top brass cave in to pressure from weinstein who was threatening to reveal details about former today show anchor matt lauer.
it s clear to me we were lied to over and over and it s just not right, especially coming from the news organization. it s the very crux of what they do, to tell the truth and they not only lost sight of it but they didn t adhere to their basic principles. despite the lower end weinstein controversies, and be to nbc quietly renewed noah oppenheim s contract and he is expected to take over as the chairman s network after the 2020 election. mchugh cannot understand how noah oppenheim still has a job much less a promotion and other folks at nbc aren t happy about it either. i know employees at nbc are upset about it, i ve spoken too many of them. i feel it s rather tone-deaf. it s going to be hard for employees, journalists going forward to report on corporate
malfeasance elsewhere. weinstein didn t only pressure nbc executives to shutdown the expose, the hollywood producer also attempted to leverage his longtime relationship with hillary clinton. here is farrow recounting that experience to bret baier. i can t speak to her state of mind, what i can say as she attempted to withdraw from an interview that she had committed to for a foreign policy book i was working on for which i had interviewed every other living secretary of state and before doing so, her staffer is concerned that i was working on a story about one of her most significant donors, a big funder of hollywood money. nbc hasn t responded about noah oppenheim s new contract but has previously reported it didn t know of lowers misconduct despite mchugh, farrow, and a number of former nbc news people