Morning Jolt: Wow. NBC Fires Matt Lauer for 'Inappropriate Sexual Behavior in the Workplace'

NBC News announced this morning that they fired Matt Lauer last night after "a detailed complaint about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace" with "reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident."

Whatever NBC discovered, it must have been dire, out of the blue, and sudden. Lauer just co-hosted NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday!

Picture traveling back in time a year, and telling people that by the end of November 2017, sexual harassment allegations had not really derailed the Trump presidency, but had effectively ended the careers of NBC's Matt Lauer, PBS's Charlie Rose, NBC's Mark Halperin, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Vox editorial director Lockhart Steele, NPR news chief Michael Oreskes, former New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier, and former New Republic president and publisher Hamilton Fish.

Probably the single most empty argument we've seen in the aftermath is some variation of "men need to embrace feminism."

As Vox ...

November 29 2017

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