How the media protects the elite and powerful
Oct 12, 2019 19:19:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 19:19:38 GMT
"We are just starting to learn what’s in my former colleague Ronan Farrow’s forthcoming book, “Catch and Kill,” but what we’ve learned thus far is astonishing. He paints a sinister portrait of NBC News where, according to Farrow, a culture of harassment, self-interest and elite-coddling ultimately led the organization to spike the groundbreaking story of sexual abuse allegations against entertainment mogul Harvey Weinstein.
That story, of course, has turned into one of the most significant feats of journalism of our time, sparking the #MeToo movement and earning Farrow a Pulitzer Prize. Full disclosure: I’m a former employee at NBC News and so I do have a little insight into the organization. At the time the Weinstein story broke, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim said: “The notion that we would try to cover for a powerful person is deeply offensive to all of us.” In fact, that “notion” is precisely what Farrow claims to expose....
But the crux of the book is how Weinstein tried — and ultimately was successful — to get NBC News to kill Farrow’s story on him. Farrow had to hire his own camera crew and take the story to The New Yorker to get it published. Basically, Weinstein played the fellow elite card. He relentlessly called the big bosses to pressure them. According to Farrow, in one of those calls Weinstein told an NBC executive: “It was the ’90s, you know? Did I go out with an assistant or two that I shouldn’t have, did I sleep with one or two of them? Sure. We all did that.” The network executive, Farrow reports, expressed what sounded like sympathy and a promise to look into Weinstein’s concerns.
If true — and NBC denies that it was pressured — these guys appeared to relate to one another as buddies. They were part of the same social “club.”"
thehill.com/opinion/technology/465466-ronan-farrow-exposes-how-the-media-protect-the-powerful
I am grateful for, and financially support, the news orgs that finally broke the silence and "boys club" that allowed these rapes, abuse, harassment to go on for decades - as long as you were "part of the club". Whether that "club" was the church, the locker room, the board room, the casting room, the court room. Wherever entitled men feel that they DESERVE to have women's bodies and DESERVE for the women to STFU about it.
That story, of course, has turned into one of the most significant feats of journalism of our time, sparking the #MeToo movement and earning Farrow a Pulitzer Prize. Full disclosure: I’m a former employee at NBC News and so I do have a little insight into the organization. At the time the Weinstein story broke, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim said: “The notion that we would try to cover for a powerful person is deeply offensive to all of us.” In fact, that “notion” is precisely what Farrow claims to expose....
But the crux of the book is how Weinstein tried — and ultimately was successful — to get NBC News to kill Farrow’s story on him. Farrow had to hire his own camera crew and take the story to The New Yorker to get it published. Basically, Weinstein played the fellow elite card. He relentlessly called the big bosses to pressure them. According to Farrow, in one of those calls Weinstein told an NBC executive: “It was the ’90s, you know? Did I go out with an assistant or two that I shouldn’t have, did I sleep with one or two of them? Sure. We all did that.” The network executive, Farrow reports, expressed what sounded like sympathy and a promise to look into Weinstein’s concerns.
If true — and NBC denies that it was pressured — these guys appeared to relate to one another as buddies. They were part of the same social “club.”"
thehill.com/opinion/technology/465466-ronan-farrow-exposes-how-the-media-protect-the-powerful
I am grateful for, and financially support, the news orgs that finally broke the silence and "boys club" that allowed these rapes, abuse, harassment to go on for decades - as long as you were "part of the club". Whether that "club" was the church, the locker room, the board room, the casting room, the court room. Wherever entitled men feel that they DESERVE to have women's bodies and DESERVE for the women to STFU about it.
