Ronan Farrow accuses NBC News of trying to kill his Harvey Weinstein story, network says "script was never ready for air"
A day after Ronan Farrow, the journalist who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on Harvey Weinstein, took to Twitter to express his disappointment at the way NBC handled his investigation into claims of sexual harassment and sexual assault against the producer, the Comcast-owned network hit back at him, just stopping short of calling him a liar.
“Contrary to Farrow’s claims, his story was never cleared or approved for air by NBC News Legal or Standards,” the network said in a statement on Tuesday.
“While [Farrow] was told by his editors that several elements of the draft script were technically “reportable,” he was consistently advised that – even taken together – they were not yet sufficient to air a story alleging serial sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein without at least one victim or witness on the record,” the statement said. “Precisely because the script was never ready for air, no one in the NBC News Standards department ever reviewed it.”