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

by Ronan Farrow

“You know, I just got a call this morning from NBC Global Security saying they need to send a police car to my house because of all the online death threats.”

Oh did they? Welcome to Ronan & the victims' world.

“Even if you believe that there is a villain in this, that the villain is not me.”

You are definitely one of them, dude, & totally delusional.

It was a consensus about the organization’s comfort level moving forward that protected Harvey Weinstein and men like him; that yawned and gaped and enveloped law firms and PR shops and executive suites and industries; that swallowed women whole.

“I do not think you will be getting a beer with Noah Oppenheim in a few months,” Jonathan deadpanned later.

😂😂😂

I’d send him a draft, and put in a question, right on this page: “Marriage?” On the moon or even here on earth. He read the draft, and found the proposal here, and said, “Sure.”

❤❤❤

In the end, the courage of women can’t be stamped out. And stories—the big ones, the true ones—can be caught but never killed.

“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.”

A blue-gray cat

Russian Blue?

a venue a press report later described as “sexy-trashy”—

Sounds like my kind of place. 🤷 Filthy McNasty's?

a lawsuit from Bezos’s mistress’s brother (long story).

😂

Howard poked at the other man’s chest. “I’ll talk about Be-zos as much as I fucking want,” Howard hissed, leaning in. “I have audiotapes, kay? I have audiotapes.”

😂😂😂

He’d spent the ensuing months hiring lawyers around the world to threaten bookstores and stop them from stocking this book.

Wait. WUTTT? His OWN book?? Am I missing something?

salad days,

OK, I love this idiom.

“Can you take this to the front desk?”

“What front

desk?”

Final thoughts: -love the short chapters -Such good reporting, writing, intel. One wonders where he gets all of his detailed info/descriptions. -I now have an enormous crush on Ronan Farrow.

I’ve worked with at HBO,

🤷 In what capacity? I must find out!

Rich McHugh did the right thing, even when it was the worst thing for himself, every time.

We are better for the fact that there are too many others to mention them all.

Reading this list was very sobering.

she provided the interior illustrations in Catch and Kill.

Wow

presidents,

I was like what presidents? 🤦

bracingly exposes the rot that’s persisted across elite American institutions for decades.”

Farrow’s greatest success was to listen, believe, and act, even at his own peril.”

dark arts employed by the powerful to suppress their stockpiled bad behavior

“Ronan Farrow has entered the pantheon of great investigative reporters.

Killers of the Flower Moon

Donald Trump’s eccentric ways,

To put it very, very mildly

it’s a blueprint of a hideous world,

and a foundational building block of a new one.”

Trick ...