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This has been made plainly clear by the way Ronan Farrow's reporting of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was covered (or not covered) by NBC, and the way that same network then pounced on the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh,
which were unsubstantiated at best. Further corroboration of this problem is most evident with
the lack of any mainstream reporting on Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex ring.
Now, Weinstein nor Epstein were not nominated for Supreme Court Justice, neither were appearing before Congress to testify as to their worth to be seated on the highest bench in America. But they were influential men, whose power and reach were felt throughout media, entertainment, politics, and philanthropy.
As outlined in Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino's
Justice on Trial,
when the letter that detailed Christine Blasey-Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh was released, it was jumped at by multiple media outlets almost instantly. The Intercept, Buzzfeed,
The New Yorker (Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer), Politico, the
Washington Post (which released the name of the accuser),
The Atlantic (in which Caitlin Flanagan wrote about how she believed Blasey-Ford), and HuffPo,
all ran with the story before any corroborating evidence came to light. And it's fair to note that none ever did.
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