Ronan Farrow on a Campaign of Silence
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein and other accused perpetrators of sexual assault helped opened the floodgates of the #MeToo movement. In his new book, “Catch and Kill,” and in “The Black Cube Chronicles” published on newyorker.com, Farrow details the measures that were taken against him and against some of the accusers who went on the record. These included hiring a private spy firm staffed by ex-Mossad officers. Speaking with David Remnick, Farrow lays out a connection between accusations against Harvey Weinstein and NBC’s Matt Lauer. And he interviewed a private investigator named Igor Ostrovskiy who was assigned to spy on him—until he had a crisis of conscience.
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| 0:53.3 | Ronan Farrow shared a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for the |
| 0:56.4 | New Yorker on Harvey Weinstein. His work since then has fueled the Me Too movement with revelation |
| 1:02.0 | after revelation of misconduct by some very powerful men, particularly in the media. This reporting |
| 1:08.6 | has been for so many wrenching and enraging to read, but there's reason |
| 1:13.4 | to hope that Farrow's reporting is helping to change the status quo in some very real ways. His |
| 1:19.2 | book Catch and Kill, which was just published, has caused an uproar. Among other things, |
| 1:24.0 | the book details how Harvey Weinstein hired a mysterious organization called Black Cube |
| 1:29.0 | to try to protect himself. So Ronan, what is Black Cube? Black Cube sounds like something in the |
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