Noah openne on oppenheim interv. Their job is to bring the news to the public not hide the news. What happened in this case. Nbc news president Noah Oppenheim may be the key to that question. Is he a screen write his or her has written several films apparently profit g from his work in hollywood even as he runs the Networks News division. Screen writers, of course, are dependent on film producers of home Harvey Weinstein was perhaps the most powerful of awesome the conflict there is obvious, did it effect how nbc treated this story . Wade grove is editor at large for the daily beast. He has been closely covering nbcs role in the weinstein scandal and he joins us tonight. Lloyd, that is such annual obvious conflict to seems to me and nothing personally against Noah Oppenheim im impressed is he a screen writer on the side. How can you oversee a News Division and have a foot in hollywood and fairly cover a story about the most famous person in hollywood . How would that work . Not very we
Nbc had taped interviews with a number of weinsteins victims. They had weinstein himself confessing to grope ago model caught on audiotape during a nypd sting operation. Nbc had Harvey Weinstein cold, busted. No honest editor in america would have passed on that story. And, yet, nbc news chief noah on pen heim did pass. He claimed there still wasnt enough evidence to run. So the network killed it. Nbc standards for what is news have changed quite a bit in a short period. Just a year ago, that network leaked the now famous access Hollywood Tape to the the Washington Post on the eve of a president ial debate. Apparently hoping to influence the outcome. Nbc could not air that tape itself due to legal concerns. But its executives had no qualms about secretly passing that story to another news outlet and then repeatedly lying about it noah ope openheims. Classmate in college in harvard. They worked together on the school newspaper, reportedly they were friends. Now nbc News Executives have
And then lying about it to the fbi and gets weirder from there. Allegedly he passed information to a College Student called allie watkins, she went on to become a reporter in several Media Outlets including politico, buzzfeed, and the New York Times. He admitted having a relationship that went on for three years, watkins has denied that wolf will separate source for her stories but Text Messages strongly suggest otherwise. Heres one. I always tried to give you as much information so you could get that scoop before anyone else. I felt like i was part of your excitement and was always very supportive of your career and the tenacity you exhibited to chase down a good story. It goes on like this. Its pretty sad and a little creepy, i felt like i was part of your excitement . You imagine these guys are sinister, turns out theyre mostly just pathetic. There are too. If the russia hoax didnt exist, corrupt bureaucrats when to be misusing their power which they are. Its hard to feel too much s
Many years after, i will leave it at that. Tucker not your conventional interview. He was asked repeatedly about allegations against him and his wife sat by him as he denied all of them. Are not to let falls accusations drive us out of this process. We are looking for a fair process where you can hear my lifelong record. Tucker nobody expected anything like this when that confirmation process started. We will have more from marthas interview and martha will join us on the set later on to tell us what it was like in that room. But we typically open this hour by talking with someone that we disagree with. We agree with straightforward debate on the show. Americans have been talking to their differences for many years and its worked pretty well. We feel that we have wiser decisions when both sides get to have their say. But tonight, we will pause for a minute. We will invite guests on later in the hour but first though its worth it to consider learning what weve learned from Brett Kavanau
Hack Democratic Party email accounts. Now letss assume that all these deeply worried people are sincere. That they really care about the integrity of our democracy. Then, why has almost nobody said about the tech monopolies thatt now dominate te exchange of information in this country . If a few dozen facebook ads are enough to subvert an election, shouldnt we be worried about facebook itself, which controls literally billions of ads . A couple of times on my show,ti social scientist Robert Epstein has pointed out that google alone cant determine the o outcome of almost any american election, just by altering its searches says our students. We would never know it happened. Oh, say tech defenders, dont worry, these are businesses, they exist to make money, not td push political agendas. It turns out that is not true. We can prove it. And email it email appeared exclusively by this show reveals that a senior google employee dd thee companys resources to increase voter turnout in ways tha