5:43
- ABC News
- November 29, 2017
The downfall of 5 major media players
The number of household names who face scrutiny continues to grow.
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MSNBC announced it has removed Halperin from his role as a political contributor at the network. The book Halperin was working on about the 2016 presidential election has been canceled and HBO has pulled the plug on a project the network was planning with him.
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Multiple women accused Charlie Rose of sexual misconduct in interviews with The Washington Post. Three unnamed women came forward in a story published by Business Insider later. It is unclear if the women overlap with those in the Post story.
Five women told The Washington Post that Rose, an anchor for \"CBS This Morning\" and host of an interview program that aired on public television, groped them while they worked or sought to work for the interview program; two said that he walked naked in front of them; and one accused Rose of firing her after he allegedly touched her inappropriately and made sexually charged remarks to her.
Rose issued an apology to the Post and later, he shared it on Twitter.
“In my 45 years in journalism, I have prided myself on being an advocate for the careers of the women with whom I have worked,” he said in a statement to the newspaper. “Nevertheless, in the past few days, claims have been made about my behavior toward some former female colleagues.\"
Rose added that he didn't \"believe that all of these allegations are accurate.\"
He was initially suspended by CBS and later fired.
NBC News fired \"Today Show\" host Matt Lauer today after a colleague accused him of \"inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace,\" the network said.
NBC News chairman Andrew Lack announced Lauer's termination in a memo this morning, which was obtained by ABC News. He said the company received \"a detailed complaint from a colleague\" Monday night \"about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer.\"
The details about the alleged inappropriate behavior have not been publicly disclosed, though Variety published a story late Wednesday afternoon with personal accounts by unnamed women describing Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct they had witnessed or experienced.
In the story, current and former NBC staffers claimed that Lauer allegedly exposed himself to a female employee, gave a separate female an employee an inappropriate gift and spoke of his colleagues in lewd ways.
ABC News has not been able to verify these additional claims and a request for comment from Lauer’s camp and NBC was not immediately returned.
Lauer has not made any public statements since his dismissal.
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