In 'Catch And Kill,' Ronan Farrow Offers A Damning Portrait Of A Conflicted NBC
Editor's note: This review contains explicit accusations from Catch and Kill that some readers may find upsetting.
"If NBC, which has the evidence, doesn't go forward with this story, it's a scandal."
That was what Ken Auletta, a writer for The New Yorker who had tried and failed to break the story of Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial sexual abuse of women, said when he found out that Ronan Farrow had obtained tape of Weinstein admitting to groping the model Ambra Gutierrez.
NBC did not go forward with the story. Ronan Farrow's new book, Catch and Kill, is a measured but damning portrait of that failure at NBC, which he ties to a pattern of harassment and abuse within the network.
In 2016, Farrow, then an investigative journalist at NBC, began work on a series about "undercovered stories"
