The long-awaited publication of Ronan Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators” has unleashed a furor within NBC News. “Catch and Kill,” set for release Oct…
The accusations against now-disgraced former “Today” anchorwere so potent that Weinstein sought to use them as leverage to pressure NBC News to kill Farrow’s investigation of him, according to “Catch and Kill.”
“How do you lead a [news] organization after something like this?” says a longtime NBC News staffer. Even if others at NBC News corroborate the company’s assertion that Farrow’s story was not ready for broadcast at the time he left, “it’s still devastating,” the source says. Oppenheim is a central figure in the book. “Catch and Kill” paints him as reluctant to stand up to the legal blowback that came with taking on Weinstein, and ultimately losing interest in the story. Farrow asserts that Oppenheim began throwing up roadblocks as the reporter closed in on sources that would accuse Weinstein of being a sexual predator.
“Catch and Kill” probes into the backgrounds of Lack and Oppenheim. The book details Lack’s history of work-related affairs in the 1980s and includes excerpts from columns Oppenheim wrote in the late 1990s for The Harvard Crimson. As an undergrad, Oppenheim defended NBC sportscaster Marv Albert after he was fired in 1997 for sexual misconduct and made assertions that seem ham-fisted when viewed through a 2019 lens.
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