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If you have read Ronan Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill’ then you might come to think that management at NBC is more like the gang that can’t shoot straight.

A number of NBC staffers have reached out to FTVLive saying that there needs to be a change in management at NBC and NBC News.

But it does not look like that is going to happen.

Farrow’s book shows how NBC News President Noah Oppenheim basically spiked Farrow’s award-winning story on Harvey Weinstein. Farrow walked the story over to the New Yorker where they had the guts to publish it.

Farrow writes that Oppenheim told him a number of times to “stand down” on the story and then basically fired him when he continued to report the story.

Hard to think that this is a news chief that was doing that and it might be harder to believe that according to the Wall Street Journal, NBC just signed Oppenheim to a new deal. The Journal writes that “Noah Oppenheim gets show of support from Comcast’s NBCUniversal and is in line to succeed NBC News Chairman Andy Lack.”

But, in reading Catch and Kill, it seems that the order for Farrow to “stand down” might have come from much higher in the NBC food chain.

So, maybe Oppenheim wasn’t guilty of pulling Farrow off the story, maybe it was he just didn’t have the backbone to stand up to his bosses.

Either way, a number of insiders think that NBC would be better off with Noah Oppenheim gone.

But, looking at current events, it does not appear that is going to happen.