NBC Fires Matt Lauer

This is absolutely fair.

As a pseudo member of the golf media, I genuinely can say I don't think people knew about Tiger, nor was there any real impetus or suspicion to go digging for that dirt. He was really good at golf, nothing seemed to affect him much except the death of his father, he slipped in and out expensive hotel rooms on floors where you couldn't even get on without a special key. He lived in a gated community. The National Inquirer had the story because (and this is literally true, according to Vanity Fair) they had an undercover person follow him around spying on him until they saw him banging the Perkins waitress in the parking lot in the back of his Escalade, and she left a bloody tampon on the ground that they used as evidence when they confronted her. Seriously. And even then the Enquirer still didn't go with all of it until right before he hit the fire hydrant.

Is that the kind of sleuthing we want legit reporters engaging in? I don't think so. I'm not sure what public interest would have been served had the NYT or SI or ESPN unearthed Tiger's secret sex life first.

 

MLB players literally talk about this stuff in the open to one another, in clubhouses, with the media around.

 

Confirmation of Tiger getting his red wings might be a bigger surprise than the Keillor news.

 

Name him?
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I never thought Lauer was as well versed in the topics as Gumbel or Couric. Even Gumbel never had an air that he was better than every story. I never got Lauer’s appeal as anything more than the main male on the today show. He wasn’t in the girl seat and he wasn’t the weather guy. I never saw any gravitas with him. He could connect with base demographic audience, home bound grown-ups with average education

 

Sex toys and whipping it out ...

Matt Lauer Accused of Sexual Harassment by Multiple Women (EXCLUSIVE)

 

I repeatedly get a service error. Great job, Variety! (Unless it's my phone.)

 

On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office, and then dropped his pants, showing her his penis.

WHY IS THIS A THING???

 

Not your phone.

 

Ugh. Allege. Women who alleged they were sexually harassed by Lauer.

 

In September, Lauer asked Fox News star anchor Bill O’Reilly if he’d ever sent lewd text messages to colleagues. “Think about those … women and what they did,” Lauer said. “They came forward and filed complaints against the biggest star they at the network they worked at. Think about how intimidating that must have been. Doesn’t that tell you how strongly they felt about you?”