Post by respect77 on Mar 7, 2020 16:49:40 GMT
I like John Ziegler. I agree completely.
Ronan Farrow Being Allowed to Kill Woody Allen’s Book Deal is Absurd, Hypocritical, and Dangerous: www.mediaite.com/opinion/ronan-farrow-being-allowed-to-kill-woody-allens-book-deal-is-absurd-hypocritical-and-dangerous/
"Instead, in today’s upside-down world, these intellectual terrorists got exactly what they wanted, and several horrendous new precedents have been set. The virtue-signaling inmates are now running the media’s politically correct asylum.
Rank hypocrisy pervades nearly everyone’s reaction to this situation, but with no one more so than Farrow himself. After all, this was the man who has constantly bitterly complained that NBC refused to disseminate his now famous investigation into Harvey Weinstein, and who is now, without even a hint of self-awareness, using Weinstein’s own bullying tactics to successfully intimidate a publisher into not running with a book that he hasn’t even read (even after what had to have been a deliberative decision made at the very top of the company).
All this should all be troubling enough, but the absurdity of these dangerous circumstances hardly stop there. Farrow’s very obvious emotional investment in the allegation against Allen creates a massive conflict of interest which should completely disqualify him from having any say at all in the publishing of this book (if he wanted to refute it once it came out, as we used to do when adults disagreed with things that are said publicly, I am quite confident that his adoring fans in the news media would be more than happy to give him a giant platform with which to do so)."
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"But it wasn’t until I got very deeply involved in the allegation of rape against former Today Show host Matt Lauer, made public as part of the rollout for Farrow’s latest book, that there was real reason to question whether his journalism even passes the basic standards of a tabloid writer. Farrow being unwilling to answer any of my questions about his reporting on Lauer, combined with him now going to great lengths to prevent Woody Allen’s version of events (which, to be clear, we don’t even know if this subject was even to be in his now unpublished book) from becoming public, is far more consistent with an activist who is invested in a narrative, than a journalist who just wants all the facts to be known, regardless of where they may lead."
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"Farrow’s ability to censor the book of a famous person who was accused of something almost thirty years ago, with just a single tweet, is a new low in the “Salem-ification” of how the modern news media handles allegations of sexual abuse. The accused are to be silenced — even if, like Allen, they are never even arrested — while almost everyone else in the news media either cheers, or looks the other way, terrified that the #MeToo mob will come after them next for having committed the blasphemy of supporting an accused person’s right to provide their version of events."
Spot on, John, spot on!