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

by Ronan Farrow

After journalism, drama and being late were my great passions.

It was hard not to sense a pattern forming: each time we came back to our bosses with more reporting, word of the story seemed to spread farther.

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.”

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

They’d caught, and they’d killed, and the intention had been to swing a presidential election.

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.”