NBC was thinking the forum was a chance to build up one of their stars so they chose Matt Lauer. That was a display of cluelessness that typifies the media.
Lauer, realizing he was over his head, decided to win points in his warped, small bubble media world, and that meant being anti-clinton and anti-woman, while being pro-rich guy.
So he went completely off topic with the emails faux scandal, and the interruptions (hey, shut up woman and listen to a man explain it to you), while letting the rich man speak uninterrupted.
Lauer is getting slammed heavily, and with complete justification; he was a disaster, out of his field and appallingly ignorant.
But the person(s) whose head should be on the chopping block is(are) whoever picked him for the job. Someone had to suggest him, and someone had to give the final okay. I want names. I want titles. I want to see someone canned. That person, or that group, screwed NBC big time.
And I want Comcast to step in and change the NBC corporate culture. It’s incestuous, divorced from 99.9% of their audience, misogynistic, biased, and dumb, dumb, dumb.
Who are the people that chose Lauer for the job, and why have they not been transferred to the mail room?