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

by Ronan Farrow

Bourdain said Weinstein’s predation was sickening, that “everyone” had known about it for too long. “I am not a religious man,” he wrote. “But I pray you have the strength to run this story.”

“You 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.”