“Catch and Kill,” released Tuesday, is equal parts memoir, spy story and portrait of perseverance under terrible circumstances.
“She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement,”
Farrow began exploring rumors of Weinstein’s sexual misconduct as a reporter for NBC News. In “Catch and Kill,” he describes what it’s like to work for a media outlet that tried to quash the story the Pulitzer committee eventually said helped spur “a worldwide reckoning about sexual abuse of women.” That colleague is Brooke Nevils, and her complaint led to Lauer’s firing in 2017, but NBC News did not disclose the accusation at the time.Nevils’ allegations are lengthy, graphic and on-the-record in “Catch and Kill.” Her account underscores the pain, damage and, in Farrow’s telling, the complexity of sexual assault. After Sochi, Nevils and Lauer had several sexual encounters, at his home and in his office.
Battaglio quotes from a memo sent to employees that was obtained by The Times: “Now that we’ve read Farrow’s book, it’s clear — his smear rests on the allegation that NBC’s management knew about and took steps to hide Matt Lauer’s misconduct before his firing in November of 2017. Without that, he has no basis on which to rest his second conspiracy theory — that his Harvey Weinstein reporting was squashed to protect Lauer.
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