NY TIMES MOVIE CRITIC MOCKS NBC’S MATT LAUER AMNESIA AS BLATANT ‘CORPORATE ASS-COVERING.’

But note that the Gray Lady isn’t off the hook when it comes to corporate ass-covering: “Slate wasn’t tough on [New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott]…or they would have asked about The New York Times and its CEO Mark Thompson, who as a BBC director-general enabled and empowered child-abusing host Jimmy Savile for decades.”

Earlier: “‘I had no idea’: Katie Couric breaks her silence over Matt Lauer sexual assault claims a month after he was fired by Today and insists her 2012 comment that he ‘pinched her a** a lot’ was ‘just a joke.’” Elsewhere in NBC’s news division, “Chris Matthews joked about putting a ‘Bill Cosby pill’ in Hillary’s water.”