Just wanted to say it fucking blows that Barry got fired yesterday. There are relatively few constants left in life, but Barry writing the first article of the day for Deadspin was one of them. I’ve been coming to Deadspin regularly for about 10 years now. I love this place. So many laughs, so many great reads. The…

That’s the age when he became undead, but he’s really like 440.

Hey Drew. You’re the best, and good luck with the brain and everything.

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…

Obviously Ronan Farrow has led an extremely privileged life but this game of never good enough is just stupid. Women have been asking men to do work on these issues for years and here is a man, doing the work, and he gets shit on for what? Having feelings about it? God it pisses me off. 

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.

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. 

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.

If you had gone into this book expecting to read a deeper cut of Ronan’s previous reporting on Weinstein’s abuse, I can see where you might get disappointed. But if you come to the book to read about the power structures at play that keep stories about powerful men under wraps, it’s a fascinating read. Ronan’s writing…

Yeah, even more closely it’s like getting mad at Spotlight for not telling the victims stories from their perspective (as I said in my comment).

Yeah, it seems weird to treat his relationship to Dylan as nearly an aside.

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?

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.

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…

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