Mediaite’s Dan Abrams: Publishing Matt Lauer’s Op-Ed Doesn’t Mean It’s a Defense of Matt

RUSH EXCERPT:

ABRAMS: “I run a media site. We cover media critique. And what Matt Lauer did, he reached out to four different witnesses who were cited in Ronan farrow’s book. And checked with them as to whether Ronan farrow talked to them and whether the accounts described in farrow’s book were accurate. According to all four of them they weren’t. Ronan farrow had not contacted them. And these were critical pieces to the story about what Ronan farrow was telling about what happened to Matt Lauer. That doesn’t mean by publishing it it’s a defense of Matt Lauer. It’s simply saying this is newsworthy.”