^^ My exact feeling on Pink Floyd. As for bands I just don’t like but everyone tells me I should: The Who. I really don’t like their early stuff while their prime years are barely passable.

I know that things on the internet can get pretty heated and a lot of people say things they don’t really mean because they are protected by the cloak of anonymity, so I want you to understand how sincere I am when I say I hope you die in a fire.

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 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 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.

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.

Seriously, the point of the book is that Ronan got a hell of a lot of pushback on the story where normally it does not occur. It sent up flags but Farrow kept on because he had deadlines and still pursued them.

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…

It’s like being mad at All the President’s Men for focusing on Woodward and Bernstein instead of doing a deep dive on the Nixon presidency.

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…

Totally agree with you - the story published told the story of the women, this was the story of the lengths to which they went to kill the story.  I’m not sure why she thought this would be something else.  He already did the reporting. 

It seems pretty clear to me that in the course of reporting the Weinstein story - which was presumably first a piece for NBC TV, which by necessity morphed into a print article when it moved to The New Yorker - a second story started to emerge. It’s literally in the title of this book, “Catch & Kill.” Killing Farrow’s…

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…

Number one rule of book reviewing: Review the book in front of you, not the book you fantasize about reading.

This article is ridiculous. Farrow rails against powerful evil men hiding truth to service other powerful evil men and it doesn’t matter? If powerful evil men were not allowed to suppress news and the women who make claims against them, would life not in fact be better for women and other victims?

I have not read this book. But it sounds from the review that this is just not the book on the matter that Megan wanted to read. I’m sure, however, it’s exactly the book that Farrow set out to write.

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

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

Width is always more important than length. As my father once said(to my horror):