NBC News President Noah Oppenheim is facing further scrutiny over columns he wrote in the late ’90s for his college paper, the Harvard Crimson.
Oppenheim’s 20-year-old columns “mocked feminists, gushed over busty blondes, and lambasted NBC for firing a sportscaster accused of sexual assault,” wrote the Daily Beast, which resurfaced the columns on Friday. The columns’ reemergence comes at a particularly heated time for Oppenheim and other NBC executives. Earlier this week, new allegations made by Ronan Farrow’s upcoming book “Catch and Kill” insinuate that NBC brass had been aware of a rape accusation against former “Today” show host Matt Lauer long before he had been fired.