The author of ‘Catch and Kill’ on Meryl Streep, Hillary Clinton, and exposing bad men that the media protects
is motivated by his frustration with NBC, though, pointing out that he attempted to stay on at the network as a contractor before the two cut ties last year. “I think I’m very nakedly honest about the struggle that I have in the book of wanting to go back to my job and liking these people outside of the context of the shutdown of the story, and wanting desperately to cut a deal with them and agreeing not to answer questions on air about [the reporting],” he says.
When asked about the hopeful message at the end of the book in contrast with large corporations’ efforts to suppress it, Farrow emits a bitter chuckle. “The reason that the book ends on that note is not to say the problem is done. It’s to suggest that we all need to fight like hell to make sure that the free press is protected and that books that include important investigative reporting in the public interest see the light of day,” he says.
The media industry Farrow depicts in the book is anything but sunny. It’s a world of secret cabals and uneasy alliances made by people well-versed in corporate jargon and doublespeak, whose devotion to protecting the interests of the wealthy and powerful is secondary only to their interest in protecting themselves.
Farrow is one of the few people in a position to speak to the veracity of these theories. “I feel like, at my heart, I’m still this kind of legalistic, conservative-minded investigative reporter who comes at everything not quite believing it and being skeptical, and it’s hard to shake that,” he says. But having lived through being surveilled by such shadowy corporate interests, he can not only attest to the existence of conspiracies, he also has the receipts to back it up.
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