Ronan Farrow is responding to the Internet rumor that he was involved in helping New York Times‘Inform about Blake Livelythe accusations against Justin Baldoni.
At the end of last year, the media published a story later Stretch He filed a legal complaint against his 40 -year -old It ends with us co -star/director, accusing him of sexual harassment and start a spots campaign.
Justin filed a defamation demand for $ 250 million against the Timesclaiming the document “‘collected by cherries’ and altered communications stripped of the necessary context and deliberately spliced to deceive.”
So how is it Ronan factor in? A rumor emerged and extended on social networks that Ronan was involved due to its rumored connection with Taylor Swiftwho is a friend of Stretch.
Ronan He issued a long online statement.
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An Instagram commentator asked why he had helped “knock down” Justinto which Ronan He replied and corrected them: “No, I don’t write for the New York Times and I have nothing to do with its coverage of that case, even informally or behind the scene. I write for The New Yorker (a completely different way out), and if I ever investigated this, you would see my work there. There is a lot of misinformation, please, always try to think independently and verify what you are listening online. “
Then he continued with a longer comment.
He wrote: “My practice is not giving oxygen to attacks that are a complete * manufacturing * that pushes in bad faith, but as you thought about: what you describe as” so many connections “is that I am seeing me in drinks With an old friend [allegedly Taylor Swift]with whom I have never discussed this matter. I have been at the receiving end of many attack campaigns like this, and when the level of contempt for the facts is this intense: claims about me being the most powerful journalist in an exit with which I have no contact or the architect of a story that I have not touched: my experience is often that those who have bought are already so innictly anxious for an easy outrage of indignation that have little interest in the corrective. But, as far as it is worth, even the ideological framework that encourages this is suspicious: I am a non -partisan journalist, not an activist, and my reports on sexual crimes (a narrow band of my work) has been about serious cases of misconduct violent or systemic coverings. My work has dismantled power structures, often liberals (in, for example, Hollywood), but this is never what motivates me. I look at the facts. You can criticize the work, but AIM is not about the war of culture, it is Scoops (which hopefully reveals something useful about the world). “
The comment continued: “Based on our handful of interactions over the years, I understand that two are equally motivated (although I have not read their report on Baldoni and I cannot talk to that). I will happily investigate Dynamic either Baldoni If a dimension of history that reveals something of interest in the systems at stake. But any research on Hollywood celebrities would have to feel very urgent to assume it now, given the current acute need for national security reports. A landscape of social media and media that privileges indignation, sensationalism and reductive thought, along with the lack of mechanisms for verification of facts, have sadly accelerated this dynamic of the disinformation sowing division. It is a terrifying moment for many of us, and I hope we can all do our part to channel that in reflexive questions and that they seek facts, instead of a blindly enraged factionalism. “
