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Fox host calls for NBC News chief to resign over Weinstein story | TheHill

posted onOctober 13, 2017
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Article snippet: Fox News host Ronan Farrow's bombshell report containing explosive allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein. "Noah Oppenheim ought to resign immediately, and if he doesn't, he ought to be fired immediately by NBC's parent company Comcast," Carlson said on his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight." "News executives are not allowed to tell lies. They're not allowed to participate in coverups. They ought to answer straight-forward questions straight forwardly. When they don't, you know they're corrupt, and that's exactly what NBC News is," the Fox host continued. Carlson's comments come a day after Oppenheim defended the network's past decision not to move forward with Farrow's story, which was published in The New Yorker earlier this week. The New Yorker story detailed allegations from three women who accused Weinstein of rape, and came a week after The New York Times published a story detailing sexual harassment allegations against the veteran Hollywood producer stretching back decades. "The notion that we would try to cover for a powerful person is deeply offensive to all of us," Oppenheim said Wednesday. "Like pretty much every newspaper and magazine in L.A. and New York, The New York Times up until last week, New York Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, you name it, we were on that long list of places that chased this thing." The NBC News chief defended the network after Farrow told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that she'd "have to ask NBC and NBC executives" on why ... Link to the full article to read more

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