Ken Auletta on the Harvey Weinstein story he wrote, the story he couldn’t write, and the one he’s publishing now.

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

20 years ago the New Yorker’s Ken Auletta wrote a seminal profile of famed and feared producer Harvey Weinstein - with one glaring omission. Now Auletta has written a book about Weinstein — Hollywood Ending — and this time he’s able to cover the full story. Auletta talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about the two works, and why it took so long for Weinstein’s much-rumored sexual abuses to come out in the open. Featuring: Ken Auletta (@kenauletta), Writer at The New Yorker, and Author Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	In today's fast-changing digital world, proving your company is trustworthy isn't just important for growth, it's essential.
0:08.8	That's why Vanta is here. Vanta helps companies of all sizes get compliant fast and stay that way, with industry-leading AI, automation and continuous monitoring.
0:20.3	So whether you're a startup tackling your first
0:22.8	SOC 2 or ISO-27-001 or an enterprise managing vendor risk, Vanta's trust management platform makes it
0:31.8	quicker, easier and more scalable. The results? According to a recent IDC study, Vanta customers slash over
0:40.4	$500,000 a year in costs and are three times more productive. Establishing trust isn't optional.
0:48.7	Vanta makes it automatic. Visit vanta.com slash Voxpod to sign up for a free demo today that's v a mta.com
0:59.2	slash voxpod
1:00.7	this is recode media with peter kofka that is me and today i'm talking to ken oletta
1:10.3	from the new Yorker.
1:11.7	Ken is a longtime chronicler of big media personalities, big media companies.
1:16.3	Famously he wrote a profile of Harvey Weinstein in 2002. Back when Weinstein was the peak of
1:22.3	his powers, we talk about that profile, the 2017 reporting in the New Yorker and the New York Times that brought
1:29.2	Weinstein down and eventually brought him to jail and why Aletta is writing about Weinstein
1:35.0	now in 2022. It's a good discussion. You will enjoy it. Here is me and Ken Aletta. I'm here with
1:42.9	the New Yorkers, Ken Aletta, reporter extraordinaire, and author of Hollywood
1:46.8	ending, Harvey Weinstein and The Culture of Silence.
1:50.0	Welcome, Ken.
1:50.8	Thank you.
1:51.6	We've talked about Harvey Weinstein before on this show a couple of years ago.
1:55.4	Let me start with this question.
1:56.8	Harvey Weinstein was well known as a sexual abuser, sexual assaulter for years.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.