NBC Fires Matt Lauer

Lauer and his wife don't even live together. She filed for divorce years ago. I think they're technically still married but it's essentially a business arrangement.

FWIW... it's been a joke/observation in New York news circles for years that Natalie Morales has a son that looks a hell of a lot like Lauer.

 

I obviously don't read People enough.

 

Matt Lauer Interview - Matt Lauer Today Show Quotes

So many times my son and I will be watching a baseball game together and a popular player hits a home run, and as he's running around the bases, my son, without hesitation, will look up at me and ask, "You think he's on steroids?" Heroes have been broken before his eyes so many times, and that's disheartening.

 

I wonder if his son watched all these cases coming out and thought, "Did Dad do this?"

 

Who was Matt talking to when he said this?

“But you don’t let your No. 1 guy go unless you have information that you think makes him…

Remember When Matt Lauer Grilled Bill O’Reilly: ‘You Don’t Let Your #1 Guy Go Unless…’

 

Oh, he's just Gary Trent, Jr.'s dad now to everyone under the age of 30, making us all feel really, really old.

 

The smoking gun ... [/bluefont]

 

Hmm... From 2016.

https://pagesix.com/2016/07/12/lauer-morales-affair-rumors-rock-today/

 

Katie Couric in 2013 said Matt Lauer Pinched Me on the Ass a lot

 

This question is uncomfortable in my head, because it can come off like victim-blaming if framed inelegantly, though I don’t intend it to be: Is the atmosphere at these networks and other work places - FOX, NBC, CBS, Congress - under fire recently as highly sexualized as it is starting to seem? I was history’s most awkward dater, so maybe that’s where the cognitive dissonance comes in, but it’s difficult for me to even fathom in my past (or current, though it’s tiny) workplaces moving the conversation to the place where you think, “Time to go for this, whether she likes it or not.” I traveled to Alabama with a pretty young co-worker for an overnight trip and it was never even uncomfortable. And we got drunk. (She was also my superior.) On the MLB and college football beats, the women were one of the guys.

Maybe I just hang out with decent people. But I couldn’t imagine an atmosphere conducive to this stuff. Work is ... work, not a buffet.

 

Still...only the beginning.

The top-of-the-business men who don't get dumped will only do so by the grace of the women who don't turn them in.

 

Years ago I worked with two early 20s women who were vying for an assignment to the Paris bureau – the move to stardom at this company. So, the married VP on our floor conducted a bake-off where the path to the overseas posting went through his bed. The winner eventually went on to be a superstar columnist with the most storied newspaper of them all. The loser left the company and has had an ordinary, low profile career. The VP shortly after was divorced and is CEO of a major media company and also sits on the boards of several equity funds.