Author: Sasha Savitsky / Source: Fox News
NBC News let a Pulitzer Prize-winning story slip away because honchos at the Peacock network didn’t want it to see the light of day, a former NBC News producer told the Daily Beast.
In the website’s bombshell report Thursday, NBC News producer Rich McHugh, who was working with Ronan Farrow on the reporter’s investigation of alleged sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, claimed that an order to stop pursuing the scathing story came from “the very highest levels at NBC.
”McHugh, who left the network’s investigative unit earlier this month, told Fox News the order came as he and Farrow were preparing to travel to Los Angeles to interview a woman “with a credible allegation of rape” against the now-disgraced movie producer.
“I was told not to do the interview and ordered to stand down, thus effectively killing the story,” McHugh said. “That was unethical, and a massive breach of journalistic integrity.
“Is there anyone in the journalistic community who actually believes NBC didn’t breach its journalistic duty to continue reporting this story?” McHugh added. “Something else must have been going on.”
The network told Fox News in a statement Thursday, “The assertion that NBC News tried to kill the Weinstein story while Ronan Farrow was at NBC News, or even more ludicrously after he left NBC News, is an outright lie.”
But according to The Daily Beast, it was…
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