![]() The last episode is a conversation with the spy who had been hired by Weinstein to follow Farrow and find out what was happening with his reporting in the creation process. The fourth and fifth episodes talk to those who helped break the 2017 story, specifically Farrow’s NBC News producer who was with him throughout the whole process, and the employees at The New Yorker who approved and fact-checked the story. The third episode speaks with employees who had worked at Miramax, two of whom had been assaulted by Weinstein, and how he had been able to get away with what he did for so long and how his influence over the film industry had prevented them from really being able to move on in their professional lives for a long time. The second episode talks to the reporters who had attempted to break this story in the years before Farrow and how the former movie mogul was able to prevent those stories from being published. ‘ Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes ’ opens with Farrow’s interview with Ambra Gutierrez, who had one of the most damning pieces of evidence against Weinstein and had even worked with the police to catch him a couple of years before but for some reason (revealed in the series) she was told they did not have enough to bring charges against the producer. Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here.įarrow released those interviews in the form of a podcast after the release of the book and then HBO took the video forms of those interviews and created a six-part series, just like the podcast, but creating a visual story that pieces together the process in creating one of the most important pieces of journalism in recent years and set Farrow up to be one of the most prominent investigative reporters of our time. Related article: MUST WATCH – The Hollywood Insider’s CEO Pritan Ambroase’s Love Letter to Black Lives Matter – VIDEO Much of the book involved interviews he conducted afterward with those who helped him put the story together and their perspective on the process. In October of 2019, Farrow published the book ‘ Catch and Kill ’ which detailed his experience investigating and forming his New Yorker story, from what caused him to decide to take on the story, how he found his sources, how the story went from being an NBC news story to an article at The New Yorker, some of the aftermath to the story, and the spy-thriller element that followed Farrow as he put all of this together. ‘Catch and Kill’: The Book And ‘Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes’ This was not the first time someone had tried to break this story but this was the first time someone had actually been successful in publishing the story. This article leads to the opening of the floodgates for powerful men who had sexually abused and assaulted others to be taken down and finally face some consequences for their actions which we all know as #MeToo. In 2017, Ronan Farrow published an exposé in The New Yorker with evidence and testimony from many sources that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein had sexually abused, assaulted, and raped many women over the course of his years as a powerful producer. Related article: The Hollywood Insider’s CEO Pritan Ambroase: “The Importance of Venice Film Festival as the Protector of Cinema” The Background Information ![]() ![]() Related article: ‘In the Heights’ – Behind the Scenes and Full Commentary/Reactions from Cast & Crew However, the road to reaching that point and creating that exposé was long and harrowing which is what the new HBO limited docu-series ‘ Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes ’ sets out to show viewers. This one article led to a massive shift in culture in the United States, with women feeling more empowered to stand up for themselves, to take action against those who had abused or assaulted them, and most importantly made all who had been abused or assaulted feel truly heard, understood, and most importantly believed for a change. Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker article about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse and assault of many women in the film industry opened the floodgates to men in all areas of the world getting held accountable for being sexual predators. ![]()
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