NBC News President Noah Oppenheim slammed journalist Ronan Farrow for his upcoming book Catch and Kill, which included new allegations that NBC executives tried to kill stories on Harvey Weinstein and downplay a rape accusation against Today host Matt Lauer.

“Farrow’s effort to defame NBC News is clearly motivated not by a pursuit of truth, but an axe to grind. It is built on a series of distortions, confused timelines, and outright inaccuracies,” Oppenheim said in a memo to NBC employees published Monday.

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