That's Frankie's boy alright.......................
Posted on 05/08/2018 6:17:25 AM PDT by C19fan
There’s a lot to be said about the New Yorker’s big, multi-sourced expose of how New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has abused four different women – as I have documented at length, Schneiderman is one of President Trump’s bitterest longtime antagonists and a self-styled leader of “The Resistance” – but one point that I keep thinking about is how Ronan Farrow, one of the piece’s authors and a key figure in the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, has truly found his calling as a print journalist exposing sexual abuse. What is particularly striking is the contrast with Farrow’s original, failed journalistic career as a MSNBC television personality.
Farrow, the son of Mia Farrow and (his own mother leaves doubt as to this) either Woody Allen or Frank Sinatra, initially had a too-easy path up the ladder: he got a UNICEF gig in his mother’s footsteps at 14, graduated college at 15, got a job in the Obama Administration out of law school at 22, and was on air on MSNBC at 27. He’s a smart guy, as his educational credentials (including Yale Law and a Rhodes Scholarship) attest, but came off on TV as shallow and callow, a guy who was handed things for his good looks and family name and connections.
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He seems to be doing something few in the media do, unbiased investigative journalism - an because of that he gains national attention.
And yet he can’t get any employee to tell bad dirt on Donald Trump
The kid has done good.
He’s chosen a very dangerous gig, and I hope and pray that he stays safe....................
That's Frankie's boy alright.......................
Re: He seems to be doing something few in the media do, unbiased investigative journalism -
In other words: presenting Truth. Which the Left refers to as fake news these days.
He certainly has no resemblance to Woody......
The reality is, I was not celebrated when I set about breaking the stories I broke this past year…But the reality is my career was on the rocks. And as a result of my tackling this story as doggedly as it did, it fell apart almost completely.
There was a moment about a year ago when I didn’t have the institutional support of my news organization. My contract was ending. And after I refused to stop work on the story, I did not have a new one. My book publisher dropped me, refusing to look at a single page of a manuscript I’d labored over for years. I found out another news outlet was racing to scoop me on the Weinstein story, and I knew I was falling behind. I did not know if I’d ever be able to report that story, or if a year of work would amount to anything…I’m not being falsely humble. I was sincerely at a moment when I did not know if I would have a job in journalism a month or two months after, or ever again.
…There were so many people in my ear at that time making such good arguments that what I was doing was a mistake. Not because they were evil, but because they looked at the world as it was a year ago and concluded, “This isn’t worth it. You’ll tell one story at the expense of so many others.” They were being rational about what our culture would accept and what it would care about, based on the existing evidence. And these were people I trusted. My bosses saying “you have got to stop, let it go.” My agent saying “it’s causing too many speed bumps for your career, you have got to let it go.” Even loved ones, saying “is this really worth it?” Pointing out that I would risk my whole career for a story that might not even make a dent.
Investigative journalism is rare and valuable, and Farrow clearly has a knack for it.
He looks just like Frank..................
Wonder if he can sing?
But why didn’t the New Yorker spike the story?
I’d bet the tick tock surrounding how this story got published would make very interesting reading.
Very clearly Frank’s son.
Handsome young man. A nice synthesis of both mom and dad. Even better, he’s got a good brain in his head.
But I still wanna know how this story came to see the light of day. :-)
Who cares?
I bet that every time a journalist is close to finishing an expose about someone in power, they hear these exact words.
I bet he doesn’t get a lot of invites to parties......................
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