If Farrow has a story showing NBC leadership tried to protect Weinstein he should tell it, but right now this process story is way too much inside baseball for me. Two sides with points of view. Ultimately a lot of women did go public putting their futures on the line. Whether NBC should have run with the story before that point is a matter of sound news judgment.
Damn he’s good looking. Gonna wait till there’s more info out on this one, although it is NOT looking good.
Does anyone require any more proof that big media is in the pockets of the 1%
Any executive worth their stock options should be able to tell a reporter to shop a story somewhere else without leaving a paper trail.
This kind of story is easy to kill, because you have to make a commitment to publish to get the investigation past a certain point, and until the investigation is past that point you don’t have enough information to make a commitment to publish.
I’ve been following Farrow for a few years. He is an ace reporter, I believe him. There’s no “other side” to this story. NBC tried to block the Weinstein exposé.
I suspect that if Farrow hadn’t done this story, someone else would.
Maybe, but it’s a hard story to do, because at the same time that a reporter is investigating and talking to victims/witnesses you have private investigators doing the same for the opposite purpose.
I don’t trust any celebrity reporter. They all have more agendas than sources. Just because a reporter is famous doesn’t mean you should take him at his word. There might be “another side.”
Particularly since this is a story about something that had been going on for years with Weinstein specifically, and for decades with the power brokers of New York and Hollywood generally. I don’t know it for a fact, but it wouldn’t surprise me if this sort of story had been swept under the rug several times just as NBC tried to do here, before Farrow finally put it out there.
Ya. – in this case, that other side is called the bottom
Don’t think of it as big media being in the pocket of the 1%, just remember that it’s the 1% that actually own and run big media. It’s far more depressing that way.
By me, he looks like he should star in a remake of M. (That’s not a compliment; it was the creepiest character in Lorre’s career.) To each…
I used to be in the entertainment industry before I got sick. NBC is just doing what every other network would do if it were them, lying. Not that it matters at all, women were still made to FEAR for no other reason than some guy needing to get his rocks off. THAT is the story and always should be.