What's going on with Ronan Farrow?
In his piece, Smith lays out what he sees as various holes in Farrow’s reporting, both for theMany of these errors stem from what Smith perceives as Farrow’s inability to properly corroborate or back up an account, relying on editorial tactics such as vague language to suggest corroboration that isn’t there.
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.
Overall, Smith makes the over-arching claim that Farrow has built a brand as a so-called “#resistance journalist” in the era of #MeToo by hinting at and suggesting conspiracies without citing any direct evidence to back it up. Farrow himself addressed this critique in an interview last year with“Conspiracies aren’t fake. Conspiracies happen all the time. Conspiracy is a legal term of art that produces tangible legal charges with some frequency.
Smith, however, takes this criticism one further, arguing that the suggestions of conspiracies at the heart ofare part and parcel of a larger cultural shift toward speculation and away from fact-based reporting. “We are living in an era of conspiracies and dangerous untruths — many pushed by President Trump, but others hyped by his enemies — that have lured ordinary Americans into passionately believing wild and unfounded theories and fiercely rejecting evidence to the contrary” Smith writes.
Some, however, believed that Smith’s central claim — that Farrow’s work and its uncritical reception is evidence of the increasing popularity of a certain type of agenda-driven journalism — has merit.
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