Why shouldn’t he take credit for breaking the story? He did, along w/ Twohey & Kantor. What happened to him is half the story - powerful people going out of their way to protect abusers; people systematically trying to destroy those who spoke out (including Farrow by not renewing his contract.) How does him saying he…

I just finished Catch and Kill and at no time did it come across as a vanity project, as this article implies. In fact, Farrow is genuine and quite humble - except of course when he’s nailing the people who tried to shut him down at NBC. This article seems to be suggesting that the work is disingenuous. It is not - it…

Thank you. This review is genuinely pathetic and anger making.

Your primary issue with the book is that it’s not about the content of the article that he published, but instead is about the process of creating that article.

I think you are actually one of the commenters here who is missing the point of the book.. It’s about the process that people in power used to keep stories about harassment/abuse from being told publicly. If you want to read more about the specifics of what those amazingly brave women went through in being subjected…

I actually waited for a review of She Said, but it's still nowhere to be found on Jezebel. Weird, right? Why review a book written by women and about women if you can bitch that a man didn't write this book instead? 

I’ve been reading and commenting here under various burners for a decade. Since before there were even burners. The quality has waxed and waned and waxed again but the current crop of writers are bar none the worst during that time period.

I mean, that’s great. Don’t read it if you don’t want to. But his reporting told the victim’s stories, and this is a different thing.

God Jezebel sucks. It gives me no pleasure to point this out. A female-focused culture and politics site should be thriving in the current zeitgeist. And yet...vape snark and Daddy Bernie. 

I’d say that he’s a little more than tangentially involved, but ok.

Except this book is about all the people who were paid to line up and protect HW & Matt Lauer & Donald Trump & Bill Clinton - and while it covers the tremendous abuse these women faced, it is about the lengths that people (men & WOMEN!) went to to protect the abusers....I still don’t understand the push back.

But bitching and complaining is more fun. I’m sorry, but we complain all the time about men not stepping up and here we have a man who did just that. If he wrote a book about the victims, Megan would have complained about that too.

We learn about Farrow’s emotional state during the reporting process and read arguments between Farrow and his fiancé, Pod Save America impresario Jon Lovett. 

This review, in my reading, is like getting upset at Spotlight for not telling the stories of the victims from their own perspectives. That movie doesn’t set out to do so, but does set out to tell another compelling story about the same topic, but from a different angle. Both sets of stories give a fuller picture of…

Did he ever claim or present this book as anything but a real-life thriller about him getting a story out after being pressured and implicitly threatened not to?

If he’d written the book from the perspective of the victims, you would have found it problematic that a man was telling their stories. The only way this book wins is if it had been written by someone else. It’s one take on a very dynamic story. I would have rather read your take on it than eleven paragraphs…

the review just comes across as mean minded. As there is already a book on it anyway, farrow took a different angle, detailing his own process as well. Is that so awful? We know that when women face sexual assault, it affects their partners, children, families, friends. Farrow admits this is where he's coming from.…

Wasn’t the journalism itself about the victims’ experiences? This is the meta book about the journalism. I guess you wanted a meta book about the women’s experience in the journalism? It’s hard to read between the gratuitous swipes against Farrow’s sins, like a brief aside acknowledging he felt competitive, or stating…

I mean... if you’re mad that A Man is getting credit, cover Kantor and Twohey themselves more on this site? They surely deserve it and I’d love to read the piece about their journey. If you’re mad that the victims aren’t centered, there are other pieces where they are. I’m not sure the existence of one book about the…

“Catch and Kill is paced like a thriller, and Farrow, the detective at the center, positions himself as the main character....”