For years, there have been rumors of Matt Lauer’s demise and today it finally happened on Today. The highest paid anchor on morning news, a reported $20 million a year, was let go after he was accused of “inappropriate sexual behavior.” The head of NBC news felt that this was not an isolated incident, and that is why they made the decision to let him go after 30 years.
Also throughout the years, he has publicly been accused of cheating on his wife, of almost 30 years, multiple times.
This news is shocking, but this is nothing to new in the news business. These claims have been made almost everywhere, and now the higher ups are finally listening because their complaints have gone public. While this has hit the news business especially hard over this year, know it is every field of employment. Do not act like it is not. We just don’t care as much when it happens to a manager of a local store in Topeka. You know happens there, just as much as happens in Hollywood, DC and NYC.
I am so happy that women can now feel safe at the workplace and know their voices are being heard. We have put up with it for way too long and I hopeful the next generation of women will not have to go through what I and so many other women have gone through. It haunts you for the rest of your life and my first incident happened to me when I was just 18, right after I graduated high school, working at a local deli. Like I said, it can happen anywhere.
