Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow

With painful frequency, stories of abuse by powerful people are also stories of a failure of board culture.

All whispered of abuses of power and of the systems—in government, media, law—deployed to cover them up.

Hannah said she’d told anyone who would listen from the get-go. “And it didn’t matter,” she told me. “I think that it doesn’t matter if you’re a well-known actress, it doesn’t matter if you’re twenty or if you’re forty, it doesn’t matter if you report or if you don’t, because we are not believed. We are more than not believed—we are berated and criticized and blamed.”

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know, the press is as much part of our democracy as Congress or the executive branch or the judicial branch. It has to keep things in check. And when the powerful control the press, or make the press useless, if the people can’t trust the press, the people lose. And the powerful can do what they want.”