In his first interview about the explosive CatchAndKill, Ronan Farrow (RonanFarrow) reveals fresh claims of secret payouts and how Matt Lauer may have played a role in NBC News’ decision to kill his 2017 Harvey Weinstein exposé
, the book is an engrossing account of the dark arts employed by the powerful to suppress their stockpiled bad behavior as well as the cover-up culture that pervades executive suites — many of them at Farrow's former employer, NBC News.
The book already has generated much pre-publication anxiety at NBCUniversal , not to mention a series of preemptory legal attacks by those it targets. Lauer has hired attorneys at Clare Locke, which specializes in media crisis and defamation, while Howard has enlisted multiple law firms to send threatening letters to booksellers. Little, Brown has shrugged off these threats, noting that the book has been rigorously fact-checked.
The book also expands on Farrow's previous account of how, while working on the Weinstein story, his life was upended. He was on the receiving end of all manner of legal harassment, including a howler of a letter from Charles Harder, Weinstein's former attorney, that asserted Farrow's motives were related to his sister Dylan's assault allegations against their father, Woody Allen. "Mr. Farrow is entitled to his private anger," Harder wrote.
Weinstein also attempted to leverage his long-term relationship with Hillary Clinton to pressure Farrow, he writes. In summer 2017, while Farrow was trying to lock down an interview with Clinton for his foreign policy book — while also still working on the Weinstein story — he received a call from Clinton's publicist, Nick Merrill, who told him that the "big story" Farrow was working on was a "concern for us.
"She used the term 'terminated,' which was not something I had been told before," Farrow says now. "Subsequent to that, I did appear [on air] with my full job title, so I don't know what it meant. But that is not a news organization that isThough his contract with NBC News would not expire until October 2017, Farrow says by September, Weinstein was given assurances by executives that he was no longer working on the story for NBC.
After Maddow's show, Farrow got a call from Oppenheim, who conferenced in Mark Kornblau, Lack's spokesperson. Kornblau, Farrow writes, "pressed me to sign a Kafkaesque compromise statement that conceded the story had passed a legal and standards review but still failed to meet the network's 'standards.' "
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