A Dead Cat, A Lawyer's Call And A 5-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short On #Epstein npr.org/2019/08/22/753… #MediaFail
Bois: "We would go to the media to try to explain what was going on...With the exception, really, of the Miami Herald & the Daily Beast, prior to the arrest [of #Epstein this summer] there was almost no substantive coverage." #OpDeathEaters
"For the first time, in comments to NPR, Maria and Annie Farmer are publicly confirming they gave interviews to Ward. They say they both spoke about their abuse on the record, by name, back in 2002." #OpDeathEaters #Epstein #MediaFail
#Farmer: "We hoped the story would put people on notice and they would be stopped from abusing other young girls and young women. That didn't happen. "In the end, the story that ran erased our voices." #OpDeathEaters #Epstein
Vanity Fair's editor was afraid of #Epstein after receiving a cascade of threatening phone calls. #OpDeathEaters
"Soon after publication [of Ward's cleansed story], Connolly says, Carter called to share an ominous development: a bullet placed right outside his front door at his Manhattan home. "That wasn't a coincidence" Connolly says. #OpDeathEaters #Epstein Carter was Vanity Fair's editor
"As Connolly pursued interviews with women who had worked for Epstein, he says, Carter called him once more. The editor had found another intrusion, this time in the front yard of his Connecticut home: the severed head of a dead cat." #OpDeathEaters #Epstein
"In March 2014, a society photographer captured a snap of #Maxwell as a guest at a black-tie party held after the Academy Awards in Hollywood. The party was sponsored by Vanity Fair. It was hosted by Graydon #Carter." #OpDeathEaters #Epstein
Another #Epstein story that was pulled by the media comes from ABC, who interviewed Virginia Roberts-Guiffre in 2015. Somebody leaked it to #DirtyDersh #OpDeathEaters
"#Dershowitz...intervened after learning ABC was on the brink of broadcasting its interview with Giuffre. He says he believes he spoke with two producers and a lawyer within the same 24-hour period." #OpDeathEaters #Epstein #MediaFail
ABC episodically covered the various [#Epstein connected] lawsuits. Yet it did not broadcast the interview with Giuffre." #OpDeathEaters #DirtyDersh
Guiffre: "I was defeated, once again, by the very people I spoke out against and once again, my voice was silenced...I could not believe that a formidable network like ABC had backed down and given in." #Epstein #OpDeathEaters #MediaFail
