Smith also alleges that Farrow failed to contact a key corroborating witness for an allegation against former NBC Today show host Matt Lauer, who was let go from the network in 2017 following sexual-harassment allegations. The witness later changed her story to the NYPD, saying Evans had said her encounter with Weinstein was consensual, which later ultimately led to the dismissal of Evans’ sexual-assault charge against Weinstein. Farrow, Smith alleges, is vague about the sources corroborating Evans’ account, writing that “she told friends some of what had happened, but felt largely unable to talk about it,” failing to include an account from a key witness who told a New Yorker fact-checker that “something inappropriate happened,” but did not go into detail. In Farrow’s initial reporting on Harvey Weinstein, for instance, Smith says that Farrow quotes a woman named Lucia Evans, who alleges that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him in exchange for acting opportunities. For the most part, however, it’s a prime example of the type of internecine media squabbling that is fodder for vitality and heated Slack debate, and as of Monday afternoon, Farrow was one of the top trending topics on Twitter. The piece pokes holes in various allegations leveled by Farrow’s reporting, most notably in Catch and Kill, but it primarily centers on the claim that Farrow has built a brand on suggesting the existence of conspiracies that his reporting doesn’t back up. That takedown, which appeared in The New York Timesunder the headline “ Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?” is authored by former BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, now the Times media columnist. So it was only a matter of time before he became the subject of a scathing media takedown.
And he’s managed to do all of this at the tender age of 32.
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He’s authored a best-selling book, Catch and Kill, which is chock full of explosive allegations about powerful people and institutions. Over the past few years, he’s broken countless stories holding men in power accountable, with the most notable example, his 2017 reporting on Harvey Weinstein for The New Yorker, earning him a Pulitzer. In the media industry, where most employees toil in relative obscurity for low wages, Ronan Farrow is something of an anomaly: an investigative journalist who also happens to be a household name.
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