In memos and statements since, NBC has claimed that Farrow just didn't have enough evidence - despite multiple credible sources and the Gutierrez tape.
But over the coming months, as Farrow and his producer Rich McHugh amassed more and more stories of women saying they were bullied, harassed and assaulted, their bosses at NBC began hedging - particularly Noah Oppenheim, the head of NBC News:Īnd finally, after Farrow wouldn't drop the investigation: "' There's just no room for you in the budget anymore.' "Įventually, Farrow took the story to The New Yorker, where it, alongside reporting from The New York Times' Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, helped launch the #MeToo movement. "Sounds terrific," Lauer said.Īs Farrow started making calls, the same name kept coming up: the producer Harvey Weinstein.
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"Pedophilia, racism, harassment." as he explained to NBC host Matt Lauer, who would soon be fired for his own serial sexual misconduct. In 2016, Farrow, then an investigative journalist at NBC, began work on a series about "undercovered stories" in Hollywood.
Ronan Farrow's new book, Catch and Kill, is a measured but damning portrait of that failure at NBC, which he ties to a pattern of harassment and abuse within the network. That was what Ken Auletta, a writer for The New Yorker who had tried and failed to break the story of Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial sexual abuse of women, said when he found out that Ronan Farrow had obtained tape of Weinstein admitting to groping the model Ambra Gutierrez. "If NBC, which has the evidence, doesn't go forward with this story, it's a scandal." How?Įditor's note: This review contains explicit accusations from Catch and Kill that some readers may find upsetting.
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