Author: Marisa Guthrie / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
“We all signed the letter knowing that more women could come forward. If more women come forward we’re going to revisit this,” says an insider.
When allegations of groping first surfaced about Sen. Al Franken last November, more than two dozen women who worked with the Democratic politician at Saturday Night Live circulated a letter of support. “What Al did was stupid and foolish, and we think it was appropriate for him to apologize,” the letter began. The women faced backlash on social media, and Franken eventually resigned as more allegations emerged.
Now a similar effort is being waged on behalf of Tom Brokaw, a towering figure at NBC News who remains a special correspondent at the network. Approximately 100 women — current and former employees of NBC — have signed a statement carefully worded so as not to dispute the accusations of Linda Vester, a former correspondent and anchor at NBC News and MSNBC who, in a Washington Post story published April 26, relayed a detailed account of alleged misconduct by Brokaw more than two decades ago when he was the Nightly News anchor. (The report also included a claim, from around the same time in the 1990s, from a production assistant who alleged harassment.)
Like those who supported Franken, the approximately 100 women who signed the Brokaw letter have been taken to task on social media.
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