From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault : Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories

pour la VO (pas encore lu, mais c’est toujours mieux en vo nan ?)

How Top NBC Executives Quashed The Bombshell Harvey Weinstein Story
Reporter Ronan Farrow ultimately took the piece to The New Yorker after facing months of opposition at his home network.

▻https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nbc-harvey-weinstein_us_59de5688e4b0eb18af059685?qj7

En s’attaquant au « mogul » Weinstein, il a dû résister à la pression de la très efficace machine à dissimuler les scandales lancée contre lui par l’industrie cinématographique américaine. Celle-là même qui, jusqu’à très récemment, en les achetant ou en les menaçant, avait privé de parole les nombreuse victimes du baron pervers d’Hollywood.

On parle bien là d’un système criminel
#culture_du_viol

on doit pouvoir trouver mieux que l’express... mais bon.

@monolecte ’fectivement

By April, NBC News had two big scoops in its pocket: an on-record interview with McGowan and the explosive audio of Weinstein admitting to sexual assault. But Farrow was told by multiple NBC News executives and producers that the reporting and interviews he had conducted weren’t sufficient for a televised story. According to four sources, Farrow and McHugh also prepared a lengthy text story to run on the NBC News website, but Farrow was told it wouldn’t run.

By July, Farrow was ready with a bombshell story about Weinstein that included on-camera interviews with accusers and interviews with four female and male former Miramax and Weinstein Co. executives.

At this point, Farrow and McHugh were ready to move forward with the story but were told by NBC executives that the story had to go up to NBC News Chairman Andy Lack for approval and that the story would be under review by Steve Burke, executive vice president of Comcast and president and CEO of NBCUniversal — a highly unusual level of scrutiny, according to three NBC News staffers, who had never heard of Burke’s office needing to review a story.

In August, according to four sources familiar with the conversations, Farrow was repeatedly told by the network that he didn’t have enough reporting done to go to air but that he should also stop reporting on Weinstein’s story, putting him in an untenable position.

#complicité #obstruction

#fraternité