Ronan Farrow Says National Enquirer Publisher Tried to Blackmail Him, Too

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After Jeff Bezos wrote a Medium post on Thursday accusing the National Enquirer of attempting to blackmail him using nude photos (including a “d*ck pick”) they had obtained, Ronan Farrow tweeted that he and “at least one other prominent journalist” had also received blackmail threats from the tabloid’s parent company, American Media Inc.

Farrow claimed that while working on breaking stories about the National Enquirer’s arrangement with Donald Trump, he and the other journalist fielded “blackmail efforts” from AMI to “stop digging or we’ll ruin you.”

“I did not engage as I don’t cut deals with subjects of ongoing reporting,” he tweeted

Last year, Farrow published a report in The New Yorker about the Enquirer’s “catch and kill” practice, wherein sources can be paid off to bury stories (a method, he reported, that helped Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign).

Link to tweet

I and at least one other prominent journalist involved in breaking stories about the National Enquirer’s arrangement with Trump fielded similar “stop digging or we’ll ruin you” blackmail efforts from AMI. (I did not engage as I don’t cut deals with subjects of ongoing reporting.)

https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/ronan-farrow-reportedly-blackmailed-by-national-enquirer-ami.html

[NurseJackie]

1. I like him.

He has his father's good looks. ❤️

[pandr32]

4. I agree

And I admire him for sidestepping his genes and just letting it be.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. That does not surprise me.

[pandr32]

3. I hope Pecker and peers go down...hard

I would also love to see the National Enquirer and other garbage tabloids stop printing their muck. I see people in the supermarkets reading and buying them and I can't help but feel sad for the people that are victims to their crap.