Former NBC News correspondent Linda Vester, who accused veteran anchor Tom Brokaw of sexually harassing her in the ’90s, said Tuesday that NBC’s recent internal investigation was “deeply flawed.”
“Women have contacted me in recent days to say that they did not feel that they could fully speak candidly to the NBC lawyers, and others have contacted me to say that they didn’t feel that they were properly interviewed,” Vester said to CNN’s Alisyn Camerota.
The investigation turned up no structural problems contributing to a culture of sexual misconduct. It was triggered after former Today host Matt Lauer was fired for sexual harassment last fall.
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— Kate Riga (@Kate_Riga24) May 15, 2018
I don’t know if Brokow is a creepy harasser or not but I DO know that this woman who feels she was wronged over 10 years ago is getting the 15 minutes of fame she thinks she deserves. It’s hard to feel sorry for someone who took no responsibility for her OWN life and now is so ‘outraged’. She was wronged, nobody cares, the investigation isn’t ‘good’ enough…what WOULD be?
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The interview settings were admittedly a bit unconventional and off-putting.
You really need to do more investigating what goes on in cases where senior men (it’s usually, but not always men) harass women or pressure them to have sex. You seem to think it’s a simple matter of a woman standing up for herself. It’s not. And while we may wish that women would speak out sooner, the delay is not by itself a good reason to dismiss allegations. Like life, it’s complicated.
True. But for a woman to out a man for bad behavior 10-15-20 years after it occurred seems an injustice in the making. I understand some women think it will spare other women similar treatment, acting as a warning to not associate with the man. But does this allow for the possibility the man she’s outing has changed, and is no longer the lout he once was? There are dozens of behaviors that would justify being leery of a person, and having suffered some sort of wrong through those behaviors is rightly resented. But where in this “Me Too” movement does anyone allow for a current assessment of a man’s character and behavior as contrasted with events FROM GODDAMNED 30 YEARS AGO??