Matt Lauer was terminated by NBC on Wednesday for what the network called “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.”
Savannah Guthrie, Lauer’s “Today” show co-host, made the announcement to viewers on the air at the top of Wednesday’s show.
“This is a sad morning here at ‘Today’ and at NBC News,” Guthrie said before reading a memo from NBC chairman Andy Lack to staffers before the show went to air.
“Dear colleagues, on Monday night we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer,” Lack wrote. “It represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company’s standards. As a result, we’ve decided to terminate his employment.”
Lauer, 59, had been with the “Today” show since 1994. He became the co-anchor in 1998.
“While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twenty years he’s been at NBC News,” Lack continued, “we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident. Our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected, and to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences. No matter who the offender, we are deeply saddened by this turn of events but we will face it together as a news organization — and do it in as transparent a manner as we can.”
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Must suck to get fired and have the entire world know why.
Another Open Secret among Lefty media.
Like Cokie Roberts admitted she’d known to never get on an elevator with John Conyers, apparently, many others knew Matt Lauer was widely known as a sexual abuser.
IF NBC hadn’t admitted that, I’d have been in his corner if he’d wanted to fight 1 case thru due process, but he had no fight in him because he knows they all know.
How very different from Judge Roy Moore who denies all wrong doing!
And Keith “Bathtub Boy” Olbermann has suddenly “retired”. Details to follow, most assuredly.