so how did the hollywood insider, the son of woody allen and mia farrow, broke the story that took thene off tinseltown? ronan farrow, welcome to hardtalk. good to be here. now many people will not be familiar with the expression catch and kill. can you explain what it means? accrue to is an old term in american tabloid journalism, it refers to buying the rights to a story not to publish it but to bury it, sometimes at the behest of a powerful person catch and kill. it is used both metaphorically in the plot that unravels in this book because this book is about circles of mutual protection and power that buries stories, and both of our cultures. and also literally because i am following a trail of clues that leads from harvey weinstein using the media to bury stories all the way up to donald trump doing the same. 0k, it you say this is effectively what nbc did, your former employer, when you were working there and starting, trying to uncover the various allegations against harvey weinstein. well, what happened at nbc is, i think, metaphorically in the category of the media conspiring w