Farrow is universally acknowledged as a major contributor to the fall of Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, sentenced in March to 23 years in prison on multiple sexual assault charges.  He has written a best-selling book about his reporting - titled ‘Catch and Kill’ – and even used it to bully the publisher into dropping the memoir by his estranged father, the legendary director Woody Allen.

All was going his way until New York Times journalist Ben Smith – formerly editor at BuzzFeed – brought up some issues with Farrow’s fact-checking on Sunday, asking if the golden boy of MeToo is “too good to be true.”

On Tuesday, Mediate published a lengthy article, written by disgraced NBC journalist Matt Lauer, challenging how Farrow’s book depicted him and titled “Why Ronan Farrow Is Indeed Too Good to Be True.”

The liberal journalist types that appear to be Mediaite’s core audience would have absolutely none of it. In less than two hours, the tweet announcing Lauer’s article was ratioed with over 1,600 replies to just 300 likes, with the vast majority savaging the former Today Show host for even daring open his mouth on this subject – or any subject, ever.

More than one person brought up the claim that Lauer “had a remote door lock button on his office so he could have sex in the workplace with people who worked under him.”