Poor Matt Lauer. The embattled “Today” show host has vented to Esquire magazine about the way the media reported Ann Curry’s exit from the NBC morning show, a departure that was largely seen as engineered by Lauer himself.
“The way the media treated what happened with Ann Curry was a disappointing learning experience,” Lauer said. “I was disappointed by the laziness of the media, the willingness to read a rumor, repeat that rumor, and treat it as a fact.”
“What were my options?” he said about the media coverage. “Does anyone want to see a person who’s making the money that the newspapers say I’m making complaining, ‘Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair’? No one would’ve had any patience for that. I wouldn’t have any patience for that. So you just shut up and go about doing your job.”
Words to live by.