Ronan Farrow's scoops? For the New York Times "too good to be true" - Lifestyle

 Are Ronan Farrow's scoops "too good to be true"? In a vitriolic lunge against "the most famous investigative reporter in America", the new media expert of the New York Times, Ben Smith, crushes the journalistic "blows" that have earned Mia Farrow's only biological son and Woody Allen the Pulitzer Prize.
    Former BuzzNews editor, Smith wonders if Ronan, like Icarus, "doesn't fly the sun too close", why, "if you dig under the articles he wrote for the 'New Yorker' and his 2019 bestseller 'Catch and Kill ', you start to see cracks in the foundations. " 32-year-old Ronan, according to Smith, "produces irresistibly cinematic narratives - with heroes and villains defined in black and white - but often omits complicated facts and inconvenient details that could make the story less dramatic. Sometimes he does not follow the journalistic imperatives that need to be confirmed as stated. Sometimes it suggests conspiracies that are inviting but cannot prove. "
    In the long article, Smith admits that Farrow "has produced revealing articles about some of the events that define our time", in particular those related to the Harvey Weinstein scandal that made him win the Pulitzer. "But careful consideration reveals the weaknesses of that 'resistance journalism' that is thriving in the era of Donald Trump," writes Smith.
    Ronan Farrow has been a prodigy since he was a child: a 15-year-old graduate, a 16-year-old accepted by the Yale Law School, a human rights lawyer before moving on to journalism, the son of Mia and Woody (but perhaps she insinuated Frank Sinatra's) she had a difficult childhood in the shadow of legal disputes between her parents and the stepsister Dylan's sexual harassment charges against her father. Smith asked Ken Auletta, a media guru and the mentor who brought the young reporter to the New Yorker if the "scoops" contain inventions: "Are all the dots on the" i "? No," replied the latter : "But if you go to the bottom, Ronan will deliver the goods to you."
    The article, posted on May 17, caused a fuss in the world of journalism put under attack by the White House as a "fake news" megaphone. Many have wondered the reason for such a heavy lunge with no apparent connection to current affairs and some have suggested that Ronan is working on something that the Times would like to discredit a priori. In recent days it was Smith himself who revealed that Farrow "is one of the investigative reporters who are investigating" Tara Reade's sexual harassment allegations against former vice president Joe Biden and that he and the woman "are actively communicating ". (HANDLE).