A detail in the news reports of lauer s workplace conduct animated the narrative.
Matt lauer button in office to lock door.
Matt lauer used a button under his desk at nbc to lock his office door from the inside after inviting in women variety reported.
A similar button exists or at least recently existed in the office of.
Lauer fired on wednesday amid allegations of sexual misconduct didn t install the button that enabled him to lock his office door automatically from his desk it turns out.
The mechanism was a.
The nbc insider added that lauer s secret button wasn t the only one at nbc s 30 rockefeller plaza headquarters.
Yes matt lauer really did have a button to close women in his office with him and he s playing with semantics in his denial of it ashley collman oct 10 2019 7 34 am.
The secret button that matt lauer allegedly used to lock his door inside nbc s rockefeller center headquarters was not a unique security feature a source at the show tells people.
Nbc fired lauer on wednesday after the network received a.
This takes us back to the original variety report which didn t necessarily say that lauer was trapping women in his office.
The button releases a magnet that holds the door open.
His office was in a secluded space and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from.
The washington post also looked into the button and after talking to people familiar with 30 rockefeller center s offices learned that the button locked the door but only from the outside for situations such as a shooting.
Former nbc news anchor matt lauer denied that his office has a secret button that could trap unsuspecting women inside his office two years after the claim sent shock waves through the media industry.