--- description: The journalist takes issue with the way the media does and does not cover his sister Dylan Farrow's allegations against their father title: Ronan Farrow Slams Coverage of Father Woody Allen image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e2253dac41eadef/698892b7f887dcc081e95cd9/ronan-farrow.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ronan Farrow Slams Media's Refusal to Ask Hard Questions of Father Woody Allen by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 11, 2016 12:38 PM CUT  Activist, journalist, lawyer, Ronan Farrow attends the Forbes Under 30 Summit at Pennsylvania Convention Center on October 6, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Activist, journalist, lawyer, Ronan Farrow attends the Forbes Under 30 Summit at Pennsylvania Convention Center on October 6, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Gilbert Carrasquillo—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 11, 2016 12:38 PM CUT Two years ago, [Dylan Farrow](http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/ "undefined") published an open letter detailing her accusations that her father Woody Allen sexually assaulted her when she was seven years old. Now, frustrated by what he sees as the continued positive coverage of Allen, Dylan’s brother [Ronan Farrow](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/my-father-woody-allen-danger-892572?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined") has written his own essay on the matter, accusing the media of remaining silent. Farrow took aim not only at reporters who fail to ask Allen and those who work with him about the accusations, but also the entities that support him, like Amazon (which has bankrolled a movie and TV series for the director). Allen took some heat in the press earlier this month when in a [cover story for the _Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/woody-allen-interview-he-wont-889678 "undefined") he detailed how he has provided wife Soon-Yi Previn with “enormous opportunities,” a statement that [rubbed](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/05/woody-allen-soon-yi "undefined") [some](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woody-allen-is-creepy-af-about-soon-yi-in-the-hollywood-reporter%5Fus%5F572a39e4e4b016f378946e02 "undefined") the wrong way. But Farrow points out in his piece for the same outlet that the Q&A didn’t include any questions about the Dylan accusations. “To me it is a sterling example of how not to talk about sexual assault,” he writes. “That kind of silence isn’t just wrong. It’s dangerous. It sends a message to victims that it’s not worth the anguish of coming forward. It sends a message about who we are as a society, what we’ll overlook, who we’ll ignore, who matters and who doesn’t.” On Wednesday night, Allen’s film _Café Society_ will [open the Cannes Film Festival](http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-cannes-idUKKCN0Y11ZF "undefined"), but Farrow says Allen and his stars “can trust that the press won’t ask them the tough questions. It’s not the time, it’s not the place, it’s just not done.” Charges were not pursued against Allen and he has consistently denied wrongdoing. \[[_The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/my-father-woody-allen-danger-892572?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4325892/ronan-farrow-woody-allen-media-dylan-farrow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4325892/ronan-farrow-woody-allen-media-dylan-farrow/"},"headline":"Ronan Farrow Slams Media's Refusal to Ask Hard Questions of Father Woody Allen","datePublished":"2016-05-11T12:38:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:27:08.724Z","description":"He takes issue with the media's \"silence\" on his sister Dylan Farrow's allegations of abuse","url":"https://time.com/4325892/ronan-farrow-woody-allen-media-dylan-farrow/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e2253dac41eadef/698892b7f887dcc081e95cd9/ronan-farrow.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e2253dac41eadef/698892b7f887dcc081e95cd9/ronan-farrow.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Forbes Under 30 Summit","caption":"Forbes Under 30 Summit","creditText":"Gilbert Carrasquillo—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4325892/ronan-farrow-woody-allen-media-dylan-farrow/","name":"Ronan Farrow Slams Media's Refusal to Ask Hard Questions of Father Woody Allen"}}]}] ```