'What a disgrace'! Did NBC News help cover up the Harvey Weinstein scandal?

Sarah D. | 7:00 PM on October 10, 2017

Earlier today, Jake Tapper addressed the media’s role in the Harvey Weinstein scandal:

Speaking of media complicity ask yourself why NBC reporter @RonanFarrow wrote this for The New Yorker.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 10, 2017

Now comes this from New York Magazine and HuffPost contributor Yashar Ali:

New: NBC let the @RonanFarrow scoop slip away. My story with @maxwellstrachan @jasoncherkis https://t.co/lHhCA4xXxH

— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) October 10, 2017

Ronan Farrow had the audio of Weinstein admitting assault months ago, but that wasn't enough for NBC News…so he went to the New Yorker. https://t.co/Xcz0jnzRiA

— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) October 10, 2017

Ronan Farrow’s investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s long history of alleged sexual misconduct was in NBC’s hands as recently as August, according to multiple sources both inside and outside the network. By then, Farrow, an NBC contributor and investigative reporter, had already obtained damning audio of an encounter Weinstein had with a woman, in which Weinstein admits to having groped her, sources told HuffPost.

Instead, Farrow’s story — and the audio, from a 2015 New York Police Department sting — appeared Tuesday on the website of The New Yorker. Sources told HuffPost that NBC had concerns related to the story’s sourcing and cleared Farrow to take it to The New Yorker. … The story relinquished by NBC, according to a network source, was “nowhere close to what ultimately ran in the NY Times or the New Yorker.” The network declined to comment on the record.

NBC may not want to comment on the record, but a lot of other people have plenty to say about this story: