Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former NBC Anchor..

[HipChick]

Linda Vester had a reputation for covering tough stories. As a war correspondent for NBC News in the ’90s, she spent three tours of duty in the Middle East and took two assignments in Africa.

But as it turned out, her biggest battle at work wasn’t in the field. She says it was as a victim of sexual harassment by Tom Brokaw, the legendary newsman who manned the anchor desk for “NBC Nightly News” for 22 years and hosted “Today” and “Meet the Press.”

In a series of interviews with Variety conducted over several months, Vester alleged that Brokaw physically tried to force her to kiss him on two separate occasions, groped her in a NBC conference room and showed up at her hotel room uninvited. Two friends who Vester told at the time corroborated her story with Variety, and she shared her journal entries from the time period. Brokaw, who has been married to Meredith Auld since 1962, has never before been publicly accused of sexual harassment.

n a statement from him supplied by a NBC News spokesman, Brokaw said of the allegations, “I met with Linda Vester on two occasions, both at her request, 23 years ago because she wanted advice with respect to her career at NBC. The meetings were brief, cordial and appropriate, and despite Linda’s allegations, I made no romantic overtures towards her at that time or any other.”

Vester, who was 28 at the time of the alleged incident, says she didn’t report Brokaw’s conduct to the police or NBC human resources because she was scared it would end her career. She left NBC in 1999 and went on to anchor her own show on Fox News through 2006.

She’s speaking out now, because she believes her story sheds light on the culture at NBC News, where she believes male bosses treated their female colleagues as objects. After “Today” co-host Matt Lauer was fired for inappropriate conduct involving an NBC employee last November, NBC launched an internal review of its practices but didn’t bring in an outside firm to investigate — a step Vester believes is necessary to fix NBC’s culture.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/tom-brokaw-sexual-harassment-nbc-news-correspondent-1202789627/#utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=social_bar&utm_content=bottom&utm_id=1202789627

[wasupaloopa]

1. Here we go again. Who is next?

[yallerdawg]

2. If it stays secret and silenced, it goes on.

"Me too" and "Times up" are doing just fine!

[Demsrule86]

5. She was on Fox News.

[madinmaryland]

13. Being an employee of fox noise makes it suspect. More likely it was

Roger Ailes, Bill Orally, or Sean "slant head" Hannity that were harassing her.

[yallerdawg]

15. Well, here we are.

Do we stand for left over right?

Or right over wrong?

[Demsrule86]

24. We stand up for our left...IE progressives. I will not participate in destroying MSNBC/NBC...

the orange menace and his minions may be behind this...or not...but right now not buying it.

[LenaBaby61]

17. IF she's telling the truth and has solid evidence ...

Then Tom Brokaw is up next. And if this IS a scurrilous accusation against him, then this woman should be charged with a crime.

I'll also say that you have to be very careful, because we know what happened with Al Franken and how he was IMHO railroaded out of the Senate by some in his OWN party. MANY thuglicans are below contempt and would think nothing of putting someone out there to set a Dem up with what could BE a bogus charge of sexual harassment et al. thuglicans like Yertle, Lyin' Ryan, Ghouliani and the head sexual assaulting/probable rapist HOG in the Oval Office will do ANYTHING to get what they want, even if it includes destroying this country with their treasonous, rotten, evil asses.

[Demsrule86]

3. More bullshit probably from the righties.

Yep...she was on Fox news...knew it.

"Linda Vester (born June 11, 1965 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American television news host. She was the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise on NBC and Dayside with Linda Vester on Fox News Channel. She left television in 2005 to raise her children."

[HipChick]

6. Righties are doing target practice...

[Demsrule86]

8. Yep right when it looks like Sean Hannity was about to be named...hmm

[IluvPitties]

4. If this is true, then there is more than one victim for sure.

[Demsrule86]

7. She was on Fox News...sorry won't accept anything rightwingers say...Franken was the end of the line

for me.

[Exotica]

10. Tom Brokaw allegedly made unwanted advances toward multiple women at NBC

http://beta.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/tom-brokaw-allegedly-made-unwanted-advances-women-nbc-article-1.3957165

[Scurrilous]

9. Oh, the gravitas!

Met to give advice on her career? He stole that one from Bill Cosby.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. I accept NOTHING from faux news as being factual.

No one here should either, but it's up to you.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. This doesn't surprise me one bit.

[Demsrule86]

14. It seems to me an attack on NBC...to effective and revealing the orange menace for what he

really is ...a criminal.

[JI7]

16. I don't think her being on FOX News itself makes her suspect

She actually was a real reporter and i think she speaks Arabic . I don't think came across like the right wing fools hannity and fox and friends .

Tom brokaw is probably more right wing than she is.

But i will see if there is a pattern and other women come forward. And if there is more proof.

[Demsrule86]

19. I think it may be an attack on NBC.

But who knows...but why now...all these coordinated stories.

[JI7]

20. No

[Demsrule86]

23. We will see.

It just seems orchestrated to me.

[BeyondGeography]

18. Pretty detailed story at the link

Creepy shit from Brokaw. I believe her.

[B2G]

21. Just why isn't she to be believed?

I can't believe some of the shit I read here any more.

[Liberalagogo]

22. Sorry...load of BS

Where was she when women were making noise at False Noise? Oh that's right she said NOTHING. Fuck her.