I'm Bob Garfield, and for this podcast extra, as we do sometimes, we're highlighting the work of our colleagues here at WNYC.

Here's the Thing, hosted by Alec Baldwin, is recorded just down the hall from us.

This latest episode in which Alex speaks to New York Times reporters Megan Tui and Jody Cantor is a good one.

Listen all the way through to the end to hear the reporters challenge Alec about his friendship

with a man who is an accused serial harasser.

It's surprising.

I'm Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing.

Jody Cantor and Megan Tooy are the New York Times reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein story.

For five months, perpetually in danger of losing the scoop, they cultivated and cajoled

sources, ranging from the Weinstein's accountant to Ashley Judd. The article that emerged on October

5, 2017, was a level-headed and impeccably sourced expose whose effects continue to be felt around the world.

Cantor and Tui documented 25 years of sexual abuse, harassment, and exploitation by one of the most

important producers in the history of Hollywood. The story put a definitive end to his career and his

company. It has also shaken the lives of some of those who supported and defended him, like

lawyer Lisa Bloom, who until last year had followed the path of her feminist mother, Gloria

Allred,

in representing victims.

And just as clearly, the reporters documented the loose network of business

and creative interests that enabled rape, harassment, and casting couch coercion.

They revealed to America the culture in Hollywood that knew about all of this and disapproved,

but expected individual women, victimized and isolated, to bear the burden of exposing

the powerful men who humiliated them themselves.

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