The privileged son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow came to Maine to blame cable news, Facebook and X for ruining journalism.
The question is whether Ronan Farrow, who spewed his charges during an appearance at Bowdoin College, spares any media outlet from his diatribe.
Farrow, on a tour selling his latest anti-Trump writings, also complained that cable news – which actually gave his career a jumpstart years ago – is trying to divide America.
He called cable news a “failed experiment.”
“The bold descent into partisan opinion journalism dominating cable over recent decades has eroded a lot of the expectation that the news media can actually provide meaningful, deep investigative insights and unearth facts without political motive behind it,” Farrow said.
The Farrow appearance comes as several members of Bowdoin Students for Justice in Palestine are facing discipline for a campus demonstration they staged.
Amid a student protest, Farrow blamed Elon Musk, who owns X, and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (the parent company of Facebook) fame for trying to create an authoritarian government through watered-down journalism.
“We see right now a kind of a rising oligarchy that is seeking to press further in that direction,” he said. “You look at Mark Zuckerberg gleefully dismantling any kind of fact-checking apparatus on his systems. You look at everything that Elon Musk is doing. The flourishing of misinformation is a deliberate agenda item in how he’s built his takeover of Twitter.”
Farrow’s publicity tour seems conveniently timed to coincide with protests by liberals across America claiming that Musk, while serving as Trump’s chief of government accountability, is trying to usurp democracy.
It is all kind of ironic considering Farrow, who has nearly a million followers on the platform formally known as Twitter, uses it to promote his politics.
As part of the media tour he was interviewed by WCSH-TV where he blamed President Trump’s banning the Associated Press from the White House as “a classic strongman tactic.” In doing so, he echoes similar accusations from Maine-based historian Heather Cox Richardson, the celebrated oracle of the anti-Trump illuminati.
The AP in the past week has been trying to drum up support from the White House Correspondents Association to protest Trump.
Trump has blocked the AP from the White House because it won’t follow his preferred description of the Gulf of America.
The AP, complaining it’s being denied First Amendment privileges, said it will continue to call the body of water the Gulf of Mexico, no matter what Trump wants.
