Practically alone among the prominent figures of NBC News, Brokaw had objected to the killing of the Weinstein story. He’d told me how he’d protested to the network’s leadership. In one email to me, he called the killing of the story “NBC’s self inflicted wound.” But both things could be true. Tom Brokaw, a principled defender of a tough story, had also once been part of a network news culture that made women feel uncomfortable and unsafe, and left little room for accountability around its larger-than-life stars.
