The mechanism was a.
Matt lauer button in office to lock door.
This takes us back to the original variety report which didn t necessarily say that lauer was trapping women in his office.
Nbc fired lauer on wednesday after the network received a.
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.
His office was in a secluded space and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from.
Last week the washington post published a report on new allegations against the former tv host including one woman who said lauer exposed himself to her in his office and asked her to touch him and another who said she and lauer had sex in his.
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 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.
About that secret button in matt lauer s office the anchor s door locking mechanism acts as a particularly vivid metaphor for the amount of power and protection many influential men enjoy.
The button releases a magnet that holds the door open.
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.
Matt lauer used a button under his desk at nbc to lock his office door from the inside after inviting in women variety reported.
It does not lock the door from the inside.
A similar button exists or at least recently existed in the office of.