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Hired by The New York Times in January, Smith\u2019s assault on Farrow focused on a handful of possible errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Farrow\u2019s 2017 story about Weinstein, he quoted an accuser named Lucia Stoller who alleges that Weinstein attacked her when she was a college student, adding that she told friends of the attack. One friend would later tell police that Ms Stoller, who was then Ms Evans, had suggested that her encounter with Weinstein was consensual. The detective\u2019s attempt to conceal this evidence from a prosecutor eventually led a judge to dismiss the Stoller allegations from the criminal case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smith argues that Farrow\u2019s reporting smoothed over possible contradictions, \u201cmaking a narrative virtue of a reporting liability\u201d. He argues that a similar problem arises in Farrow\u2019s book, Catch and Kill, in which he reports that the NBC broadcaster Matt Lauer assaulted a junior employee who ran from his office and told a producer what had happened. Smith said he interviewed this producer, who did not recall the scene as it was told. In Smith\u2019s telling, Farrow smooths the edges of his stories to play to the \u201cresistance movement\u201d of Metoo protesters and campaigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Farrow had begun investigating Weinstein while working at NBC, but when he felt his work being stymied, he took his story to The New Yorker. Writers and editors at The New Yorker defended Farrow. Ken Auletta, who tried several times to report on assault allegations against Weinstein, said Farrow had succeeded where others had failed for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael Luo, a New Yorker editor, wrote on Twitter that they would make a correction if anything in Farrow\u2019s reporting was shown to be untrue. \u201cBen has not done that here.\u201d It was noted, however, that Smith\u2019s article had already been subjected to two small corrections since its publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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