Ronan Farrow is known for taking down powerful men like Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer with his in-depth reporting, but on Sunday, New York Times’ new media columnist Ben Smith … “Because if you scratch at Mr. Farrow’s reporting in The New Yorker and in his 2019 bestseller, ‘Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,’ you start to see some shakiness at its foundation. Sanctioned by DJT. She was too tired. He made headlines for being first outlet to publish the infamous dossier formulated by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, which was funded by the DNC and the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election. It is, however, “damaging reporting about public figures most disliked by the loudest voices” that made for a very compelling story. Smith, however, takes issue with something else entirely:Mr. Farrow did not share his methods. or redistributed. Smith says "you should err on the side of transparency. And Harvey Weinstein was one of Hillary Clinton’s big Hollywood bundlers, he brought in a lot of money for her, they were friends. He then goes on to describe the call:The afternoon of the meeting with Harris, as I pushed through the downpour and into my building’s front door, a call came in from Nick Merrill, Clinton’s flack. But as New Yorker website editor Michael Luo noted in a Twitter thread pushing back on several of Smith’s claims, that happened after, and apart from, Farrow’s reporting for the New Yorker.14/ We disclosed that the friend could not confirm specifics, except that she had witnessed the meeting between Weinstein and Evans. The columnist then explored Farrow’s rise from low-rated MSNBC host to star investigative reporter.“Farrow may now be the most famous investigative reporter in America, a rare celebrity-journalist who followed the opposite path of most in the profession: He began as a boy-wonder talk show host and worked his way downward to the coal face of hard investigative reporting,” Smith wrote.Farrow helped launch the #MeToo movement and won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the sexual misconduct of now-disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. That the friend later said something different to prosecutors does not make our reporting any less diligent.Smith wrote to Slate, “The point I made is that reporters typically make an effort to be transparent about what they know.” It’s true that there was room for Farrow to be more specific about the extent of the corroboration he had, though it’s not clear how doing so could have possibly prevented what happened later in court.Directly after that, Smith recounts a part of Farrow’s book that describes Matt Lauer assaulting Brooke Nevils, a junior employee, who afterward ran to tell a producer whom she’d recently started dating. "Ben Smith, media columnist at The New York Times, speaks with Brian Stelter about his re-examination of Ronan Farrow's book "Catch & Kill" and Farrow's stories for The New Yorker. Farrow says, in essence, that's what he has done: "I stand by my reporting.
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