Good evening everybody. Thank you very much for your patience, im Bradley Graham the coowner of politics and prose along with my alyssa and on behalf of everyone here at lister auditorium, welcome. Thank you. So much for coming. We pmp have been partnering eith gw for a number of years now, sponsoring these author talks, and we are really grateful to have access to such a spacious and convenient facility here in the center of washington. We are also grateful for the support from all of you. We know you have choices on where to buy books these days and we would like to thank you for choosing to shop with the local independent bookstore. [applause] its especially exciting to be hosting ronan farrow here thise evening. He is here course to talk about his new book catch and kill. It has been two years since ronan wrote in the new yorker and jodi is riding in the new york times. Its been two years since they publish their separate exposes about Sexual Assault and harassment allegations agai
Few years ago your mother suggested your father few years ago your mother suggested yourfather might it is about half past four in the few years ago your mother suggested your father might be frank sinatra, morning. Now on bbc news, hardtalk. It was interesting your response to it. But she said and who she had been married to before and it made a lot of people question why you welcome to hardtalk. Im sarah didnt doa lot of people question why you didnt do a paternity test because you could, by taking a dna test, montague. Thejournalist actually separate yourself from this welcome to hardtalk. Im sarah montague. The journalist ronan farrow won a Pulitzer Prize for his man dont refer to as your father. Investigation of Harvey Weinstein. His revelations about the Film Producer prompted an outpouring of actually separate yourself from this man dont refer to as your fatherlj do actually in my writing about that rage at the way women had been case refer to him as my father treated and trigge
Journalists around this that, you know, this was shut down. And much of that has now been admitted to in the conversation welcome to hardtalk. In the wake of this book. Im sarah montague. The journalist ronan farrow won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigation but it is not the same catch of Harvey Weinstein. His revelations about the film and kill practice in the literal producer prompted an outpouring sense which involves the acquisition of rage at the way women had been treated and triggered the metoo of the rights to a story in a financial transaction, movement an attempt at breaking and then the killing of it. The silence around Sexual Assault. Ok, now nbc would probably not i mean, they rebut a lot in his new book catch and kill, hes posing difficult questions of the allegations that about the powerful media youve made about them, institutions he says tried but why do you think, to suppress the story. When you where there working so how did the hollywood insider, for them and tryin
Now on bbc news, Sarah Montague talks to journalist ronan farrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of Harvey Weinstein, in hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Sarah Montague. The journalist ronan farrow won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of Harvey Weinstein. His revelations about the Film Producer prompted an outpouring of rage at the way women had been treated and triggered the Metoo Movement an attempt at breaking the silence around Sexual Assault. In his new book catch and kill, hes posing difficult questions about the powerful media institutions he says tried to suppress the story. So how did the hollywood insider, the son of mia farrow and woody allen, break the story that took the shine off tinseltown . Ronan farrow, welcome to hardtalk. Good to be here. Now, many people wont be familiar with the expression catch and kill. Can you explain what it means . Catch and kill is an old term in american tabloid journalism. It refers to buying the rights to a story not
Behalf of all the great folks here at the auditorium, welcome, thank you so much for coming. We have been partnering for a number of years now sponsoring these author talks and we are very grateful to have access to such a spacious and convenient facility here in the center of washington. We are also grateful for the support from all of you. We know you have choices on where to buy books these days and we would like to thank you for choosing to shop with a local independent bookstore. [applause] [cheering] it is especially exciting to be hosting this evening. Hes here of course to talk about his new book and its been two years since roman writing in the new yorker and jodi kantor and megan writing in the New York Times and the two years since they published their separate exposes of Sexual Assault and harassment allegations against movie producer those stories encouraged many other women around the world to come forward with allegations against other powerful privileged and previously