NBC News is responding to excerpts from Brian Stelter’s new book “Top of the Morning” in this weekend’s The New York Times Sunday Magazine. The first third of the book, out Tuesday, is about the “Today” show’s long rise and sudden fall from the top of the morning shows including inside details about those behind it: former EP Jim Bell, former NBC News president Steve Capus and of course Matt Lauer and Ann Curry.
The Magazine story has itself been excerpted dozens of times across numerous sites since it went online Wednesday. For its part, the “Today” show is trying to look the other way: “We are focused on covering several major news stories this week and producing the best show we can for our viewers, not on year-old gossip.”
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