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

by Ronan Farrow

Weinstein was just an “old dinosaur learning new ways,” she argued. By the next day’s morning programs, Bloom was working to frame the allegations in the Times piece as mild indiscretions. “You’re using the term sexual harassment, which is a legal term,” she said to George Stephanopoulos. “I’m using the term workplace misconduct. I don’t know if there’s a real significant difference, to most people, but sexual harassment is severe and pervasive.” She said that she’d counseled Weinstein sternly against talking in the office “the way you talk to your guy friends, you know, when you’re going out for a beer.” Weinstein, in his own statements, said that he “came of age in the ’60s and ’70s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different,” and professed to be on a “journey” to “learn about myself,” with “Lisa Bloom to tutor me.” Weinstein pledged to devote himself to fighting the National Rifle Association. As far as Bloom and Weinstein were concerned, he would get therapy, start a foundation for female directors at USC, and that would be that.