Ken Auletta, a journalist, slammed NBC News for its handling of Harvey Weinstein’s story. He claimed that the network gave in to Weinstein’s pressure to cut the story. Ronan Farrow was also left out. “vindicated.”
Auletta claims that Weinstein was informed by NBC in July 2017 that they had passed the story to Weinstein, a month after they told Farrow.
“That’s a scandal, that Harvey was so inside,” Auletta said.
In a statement to Thursday, the network refuted this version.
“NBC has denied that it informed Weinstein before Farrow that the story would not run,”A statement was made.
Auletta explores Weinstein’s rise in Hollywood and fall to jail in “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence.”
“Ronan Farrow was vindicated in my mind, and NBC was not,” Auletta In a Mediate interview, released Thursday.
In 2017, Farrow brought his reporting, which featured multiple women’s accounts of abuse perpetrated by Weinstein, to NBC, where he worked at the time. When NBC passed on Farrow’s story and claimed that he did not have enough for a story, he took the piece to The New Yorker, who Publiziert the exposé in Oct. 2017.
NBC also denied the allegation, and Auletta was informed by NBC that Farrow had been denied. “didn’t have the story until he went to The New Yorker.”
For clarity, Auletta went to The New Yorker by contacting Farrow’s editor, Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn, who verified the amount of on-the-record, on-camera accounts of women accusing Weinstein of sexual assault that Farrow had before bringing the story to The New Yorker.
Auletta’s biography documents the timeline of Farrow’s story, and provides an in-depth look at Weinstein’s humble beginnings, rise to Hollywood power and accusations of abuse that landed him an ouster from Hollywood — and a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault, to boot.