I wanted the reading experience to be narrative and compulsive and immersive in a way that books can be, and shorter-form magazine or newspaper writing can't as easily. I wanted the reporting to be as ironclad and bulletproof as any New Yorker piece that I've done, and it is. Near the very end of the book you say, "I just wanted my job back." There are these parallel stories of what you are reporting, the severity and gravity of it, and how you're squaring it within your own career and your own journey.įrom the beginning, I wanted this book to fully capitalize on the medium of being a book. You mentioned the respect for the people you have there, but there is also the fact that you worked there before they informally let you go. You learn some disturbing things about your bosses and colleagues, and it becomes clear in the book that many are trying to halt your reporting. This book is written in first-person, which we'll get into more later, but I found it particularly interesting in terms of your feelings about NBC as well.
But when you reach a point in the reporting like where I am with the Catch and Kill reporting, where you really have wrapped your arms around the whole thing and done an incredible amount of due diligence and fact checking, you know that it's bulletproof, with receipts, if you will, you just forge ahead and try to filter out the noise. Powerful interests saying they are going to wipe you out is not a fun experience. I wouldn't say that I've become immune to that.
It often includes spin in the press and the manipulation of tabloid pages. RONAN FARROW: Every story I report, there is a playbook that gets used to try to get ahead of it and that often includes legal threats against either whoever is publishing the story or me personally, or both. Given that, do you feel nervous at all about the book coming out? ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I wanted to start by discussing the hoopla around the book concerning reported threats from Dylan Howard and Matt Lauer, who you expose with rather severe allegations in the book.
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