intimidation and pressure, the story he was working on about weinstein almost didn t get told. and farrow says that s because his employer for the first several months of his reporting, nbc news, slow-walked and even at times tried to stop his reporting. farrow says he was repeatedly told to pause any new reporting while his story was reviewed by increasingly higher-level executives at nbc, that some executives seemed to feel the weinstein story was not newsworthy or not worth the trouble. and yes, that s while nbc executives, as i described earlier, were getting repeated calls from weinstein himself, not to mention his lawyers. it was only when nbc news allowed ronan farrow to take his reporting elsewhere that it found a home at the new yorker magazine. he had worked on the story at nbc for seven months before going to the new yorker in august of 2017. seven weeks after ronan left nbc, the times published their weinstein story, and five days after that, farrow published his wein
intimidation and pressure, the story he was working on weinstein almost didn t get told and farrow said that s because his employer for the first several months of his reporting, slow walked and even at times, tried to stop his reporting. farrow said he was repeatedly told to, pause any new reporting while reviewed by increasingly higher executives, some seem to feel it was not newsworthy or not worth the trouble and yes, that s while nbc executives, as i said earlier, getting repeated calls from weinstein himself, not to mention his lawyers. it was only when nbc news allowed ronan farrow to find a home at the new yorker magazine. worked at nbc for seven months when went to the new yorker in august 2017, seven weeks after ronan left nbc, the times published their weinstein story and five days after that, farrow published his weinstein story, the piece he had started at nbc
really never heard about before. which is about, i guess what you d call the more baroque tactics that he brought to bear. ronan farrow reported vividly on weinstein hiring a foreign private intelligence firm staffed by the agents of the israeli intelligence service. these agents adopted a viefrt fake identities pretended to be all sorts of different people to get close to weinstein s accusers to gain trust and find out what this accuser might plan to say about weinstein and gather dirt to undermine accusers to make them, again, seem nuts, seem unreliable. and it wasn t just the people who weinstein had allegedly attacked who might speak about their experiences with him. the reporters going after the weinstein story were also targeted by these intelligence operatives. while reporting on the story,
confidentiality clauses don t constrain women from talking about these things. based on your reporting from what you just described an ongoing reporting since the book, it sounds like you think that women will come forward now once they ve been released. that will be their choice but women felt constrained, they were agonized over that and i think this will go a long way towards making them feel that they can discuss this openly. why do you think that you were told to pause for the reporting on your weinstein story at nbc news? i was able to independently verify this. nbc news confirming to me that happened but they say it was due to concerns about your reporting and a breakdown of trust between you and the investigative unit. why do you holistically, not in one of one of these instances in particular but holistically why do you think they told you to pause your reporting? important to note this past several rounds of legal and standards reviews, no breakdown of trust. i was told
published his weinstein story, the piece he had started at nbc but ran in the new yorker magazine, and included the most serious allegations from weinstein to that point. three allegations of rape. nbc news has strengthenously denied the allegation that it intentionally stymied his reporting. but said it was not ready for network tv in august 2017. they said the network was prepared to continue working working on the story to get it into shape, but that ronan wanted to move more quickly and so they allowed him to go to a print outlet instead. according to nbc, when ronan farrow left, he had no weinstein accusers on the record. farrow said when he left nbc, he had, quote, an explosively reportable piece that should have been public earlier. nbc news said his new yorker article bore little resemblance to his nbc news reporting. but again, that new yorker piece was less than two months after