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Article: Lauer doesn't toss any marshmallows in tough interviews
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- April 28, 2007
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By David Bauder
NEW YORK -- Matt Lauer is sent packing this week on another of those round-the-world mystery jaunts for Today, the kind that has probably earned him enough frequent-flyer miles to get to the moon for free.
Some of his work during the past few weeks on stories closer to home -- much closer -- better illustrate his value to NBC News.
In the midst of Don Imus's career implosion over his remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Lauer so adroitly handled an on-camera interview with his own boss at NBC News that it impressed a former competitor watching at home.
With his news organization again in the news a week later, Lauer ...