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Ronan Farrow
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July 16 - July 23, 2021
I balled up the page in my hand.
YEZZZ 👏
if there’s a chance of exposing this before
it happens to anyone again, then I can’t stop.”
THE WHOLE POINT -STOP this monster in his tracks (and hold him to account).
“This was fun. Wish we could go back to California poison water, right?”
OMG, what?? What even IS this?
“This is why this guy continues to get off,”
YUP 💯💯💯
mixing metaphors.
My personal specialty 😂
“This conflict of interest thing,” I said. “Noah said Harvey told you about it.” He found time in between looking panicked to appear sincerely puzzled. “I never talked about that with Harvey,” he said.
Oh really? Sounds like Oppenheim is a giant liar.
“My view is that the tape and Harvey Weinstein grabbing a lady’s breasts a couple of years ago, that’s not national news.”
Yes it fucking well is, especially b/c it's a pattern with no foreseeable end. I cannot stand this guy. Ugh.
“Please, Rich, no more Yiddish, and it’s fakakta—”
😂 I love Yiddish. I surprise people when I use it.
The producer started sorting through mail and futzing with FedEx forms.
Now *I* think everyone is a spy. 😂
“They said no, then they realized it’s a PR scandal.
Exactly. Ronan is too optimistic.
rope-a-dope
Boxing move
“Bottom line, it’s trouble that the president of NBC News is talking directly with Harvey and lying to us about it.”
Why yes, yes it is.
I was lifted, as I left Rockefeller Plaza and made my way through the harsh neons of Times Square, by newfound optimism.
Imma be petty AF. I'd change the sentence structure & shorten it as well.
“NBC’s a bird in the hand.
Ha!
“Noah’s in over his head, he’s not malicious.”
Mmmmm I dunno...
Weinstein had asked them to write down all the employees they knew and get in touch with them.
Yeah. For a "book." I BELIEVE it's called a dossier.
he wanted copies of any emails she’d received or sent.
Oh WTF. She doesn't work for him! What RIGHT??
Wolfe, rattled, sent my messages to Doyle Chambers and denied she’d ever responded to them.
I'll bet she was rattled!
insiders
? Like whom?
“Wang anything?”
Oh, Ronan 😂
Ostrovskiy eyed the beverage he’d finished off earlier, resigned himself, picked it up, and went.
RONAN. TMI!
Juanita Broaddrick, who had accused Bill Clinton of rape twenty-one years earlier.
HOW have I never even heard about this?? My God.
“we have to get one ‘ground rule’ very clear: whenever you go to the pool, you must let me know. A long distance glimpse, even, will make my day.”
OMG. barf, barf, barf! What an absolute creep.
The next day, unbeknownst to me, NBC finalized a nearly $1,000,000 separation agreement with Corvo’s accuser.
"Unimpeachable" my arse
What's a "separation agreement" with regard to a network?
the neighbor to whom I bore a passing resemblance walked on,
I was wondering why Ronan had ever mentioned him.
sent his boss a picture of me and my sister Dylan, aged four and six, perhaps, in our parents’ arms.
At least the spy has a sense of humor. 🤷
as if to make sure Ostrovskiy was kidding, Khaykin sent a screenshot from one of the dossiers with the blue Times New Roman headers, showing my birthday.
😂😂😂
an ouroboros
of news and highbrow commentary
and tote...
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🐍🐉😂
“That,” Remnick said gravely, “was a bad movie.”
YEZZZZZ 😂
“He’s been calling me,”
Oh hell no.
Lack, who was married at the time, had pursued sexual relationships with underlings and talent.
Because of course he did. 🤦🙄😡 This absolutely insane culture of entitlement among these disgusting old rich guys makes me want to dole out dick punches. Absolutely unbelievable how pervasive this was (is?).
When Laird asked to be reassigned, Lack wouldn’t allow it.
He compelled her to work longer hours, and on weekends, and proposed she cancel vacations.
Fucking controlling-ass sadist.
“Why would you do that?” one executive recalled asking Steve Burke upon learning of his decision to reinstate Lack. “The reason you have those cultural problems down there—he created that!”
At least someone gets it.
Jonathan proposed what I did next.
I tell you, that Jonathan, he's a keeper. Gives really sound advice.
McHugh thought of all the times Weinstein had successfully quashed the story in the past, and replied, “We are letting him win.”
Thank God they didn't
My early experiences at The New Yorker felt like those videos where lab animals walk on grass for the first time.
Ha! I love this.
The Monday in late August chosen for the interview coincided with a rare total eclipse of the sun. Most of the freelance crews we contacted were busy shooting the eclipse from ideal vantage points in places like Wyoming.
Like what are the freaking chances??
I was in Carbondale lol. 😎
“He creates the situation in which your silence will benefit you more than speaking out will,”
“If you don’t run with this, if you don’t move forward with this and expose him, you’re on the wrong side of history,” she said. “He’s going to be exposed.
It benefits you to do it and not wait till he is and everyone knows you were sitting on information that could have prevented other women going through it, for potentially years to come.”
Exactly
“Because I’m not supposed to be doing this issue, and I want someone to be available to confirm exactly the words I used.”
Smart move
what they’ve told you in court?”
Court?
I was, she said, no longer working for NBC News.
Seems like that's news to Ronan. Jesus.
suggested Michael Fassbender.
the actor couldn’t open a movie.
Umm I dunno about THAT.
Assassin’s Creed,
I dunno, as far as video games, this one doesn't sound so bad. 🤷
