So...what’s your point? That this book should have been a different book? 

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 rarely seen a review that complains at such length about the non-existence of a hypothetical book the author did not write and did not represent he was writing. The book (read the title “Catch and Kill” for goodness sake) is explicitly about the journalistic challenges involved in getting the story out. Beyond…

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. 

Exactly.  His pulitzer prize winning articles were about the victims.  The book is about how powerful men try to derail journalism.  They are related topics, but not the same story.  This kind of complaint is totally disrespectful to work he did in his original reporting.

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

It’s really astounding the bitterness and anger spewed at a person who is the perfect example of what this site keeps saying it wants as allies.  If he isn’t a good enough ally, then who is?

You do realise that he already published a story about the victims.  That’s what this book is about - him getting that story published.  

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…

Jezebel’s silence is deafening on the Katie Hill situation

It was about the process of getting the story published and the institutional bullshit that protected people like Lauer and Weinstein. I don’t think it minimizes anything about the victims, it’s just about a different-ish topic? It’s like being mad at All the President’s Men for focusing on Woodward and Bernstein…

I love that Jezebel has, for some reason, decided Megan is qualified to write book reviews.

The book is about NBC killing the story and Farrow trying to get it published.