Comment on Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill Depicts a Network of Powerful Men Conspiring to Silence Women

Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill Depicts a Network of Powerful Men Conspiring to Silence Women

When Ronan Farrow’s bosses at NBC told him to stop reporting on Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long pattern of sexual abuse, he turned to some of NBC’s most powerful journalists for advice: Tom Brokaw and Matt Lauer. It was only after Farrow left NBC and won a Pulitzer Prize for the story on Weinstein he eventually took to the New Yorker that he found out his subject had pressured executives at NBC to pull the story, even enlisting a friend at the National Enquirer to head an investigation into the sexual improprieties of Lauer for leverage.

 

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