Mediaite’s Larry O’Connor Knocks NBC: ‘Different Set of Standards’ for Weinstein and Trump
Mediaite columnist Larry O’Connor appeared on Fox Business on Friday in order to discuss the “shifting journalistic standards” he has seen in the coverage of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment scandal.
O’Connor was on to react to the news that Weinstein had a contract with his former company that would’ve allowed him to retain his position even while facing a sexual harassment lawsuit. News of this arrangement has raised new questions about the film mogul’s history of misconduct, and O’Connor noted how it looks like the Weinstein Company was well aware of his behavior.
O’Connor found it strange that NBC is prepared to run stories about President Donald Trump based on anonymous sources, yet they declined to run Ronan Farrow’s exposé despite having several on-the-record Weinstein accusers.
“Seems like they have a different set of standards depending on who they’re reporting on,” O’Connor said. He proceeded to talk with host Charles Payne about indications that media outlets tried to keep Weinstein’s transgressions under wraps.
“Right now I think the story is perceived to be a Hollywood thing. I asked women, you know, 20 years now after the Clarence Thomas situation and after Bill Clinton in the White House, is this still pervasive? The stories that you hear, they’re all very similar. Women called in and said, ‘yeah, this is still happening,’ where they feel pressured to start a relationship with someone who is in power, has influence over them. They feel like if they don’t acquiesce, they can’t get advancement in their careers, and sometimes that relationship rises to the level of sexual assault and it just goes unreported because these women feel like they are in real danger not just career-wise but in terms, you know, of actual well-being.”
Watch above, via Fox Business.
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