Ronan Farrow on How NBC Almost Derailed #MeToo Before It Began
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🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Ronan Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein’s serial predatory behavior has earned a Pulitzer Prize. But in the months leading up to publication, a major news behemoth tried to kill the story. In Farrow’s latest book, "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators", he tells the story of how NBC executives worked for months to try to kill the Weinstein story. Farrow unspools the remarkable tale with Mother Jones Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery at a live event in San Francisco earlier this month.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones podcast. I'm Jamila King in New York. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's show, on today's show, you couldn't make this stuff up. It reads like the stuff of a spy thriller. |
| 0:19.9 | Victims of abuse silenced. |
| 0:22.9 | A journalist, threatened by film mogul Harvey Weinstein. |
| 0:27.5 | Powerful executives covering up the truth. |
| 0:30.8 | A lock safe stuffed with Trump's secrets? |
| 0:35.0 | Today, Pulitzer Prize winner Ronan Pharaoh has written a tell-all book, |
| 0:40.0 | and he's on the show to tell you all about it. |
| 0:43.0 | Stick around. Ronan Ferro's investigations into Harvey Weinstein helped to ignite the Me Too movement, |
| 1:03.9 | and earned him a Pulitzer along the way. |
| 1:06.3 | It's a journey captured in his new book, |
| 1:12.1 | Catch and Kill. |
| 1:13.3 | The story is a rollicking real life spy thriller |
| 1:17.4 | about workplace harassment, sexual harassment, |
| 1:21.0 | lies, more lies, and alleged corporate cover-ups. |
| 1:25.7 | As a journalist, it's hard for Rodin's bewilderingly high volume of work not to inspire a little bit of professional |
| 1:36.1 | jealousy or a lot. |
| 1:38.9 | Ronin went to college at 11 years old. |
| 1:41.1 | He's a Rhodes scholar with a law degree from Yale. There's a PhD in there too. He hosted a show on a Ms. |
| 1:47.8 | M.C and somehow while reporting on Me Too issues he also wrote a book on American foreign policy. |
| 1:55.0 | Now, he's an investigative reporter and contributing writer at the New Yorker. |
| 2:00.0 | Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffrey recently sat down with Ronan in front of a |
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