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    Ronan Farrow's 'Catch and Kill' book is attacked by NBC News

    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Oct 14, 2019 5 minutes

    NBC is launching a counterattack against investigative journalist Ronan Farrow's upcoming book "Catch and Kill," which accuses the network's news division of a coordinated effort to shut down his reporting on disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in order to protect fired "Today" co-anchor Matt Lauer.

    "Now that we've read Farrow's book, it's clear - his smear rests on the allegation that NBC's management knew about and took steps to hide Matt Lauer's misconduct before his firing in November of 2017," according to a memo sent to employees Monday that was obtained by the Los Angeles Times. "Without that, he has no basis on which to rest his second conspiracy theory - that his Harvey Weinstein reporting was squashed to protect Lauer."

    The defense comes as NBC News President Noah Oppenheim tries to calm employees roiled by the revelations from excerpts of the book

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