When the media protects the powerful

In his new book Catch and Kill, Ronan Farrow claims that NBC News obstructed and ultimately killed his investigation of Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual assaults. He alleges that company executives, particularly NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, prevented the Weinstein story from going to air in order to cover up former Today show host Matt Lauer's own similar crimes. As Farrow maintains, Weinstein threatened to go public with Lauer's long list of sexual assaults should NBC run anything...