UPDATE: Farrow has responded to the earlier claim. See below.

This, to me, is an amazing revelation.

4. The Ramirez accusation has been floating around several news outlets in the past week, including NBC, NYer, New York Times, & the Washington Post per five sources. Some reporters felt uneasy with it, but it apparently passed the rigorous fact-checking standards of the NYer. — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 24, 2018

That is three major news outlets and a magazine. The three major outlets declined to do anything on the story.

In a follow-up tweet, Yashar Ali notes that Deborah Ramirez, Brett Kavanaugh’s second accuser, apparently would not talk to the Washington Post or the New York Times. But, she would talk to… the New Yorker? That’s a pretty weird call.

5. One point of clarification, I understand, per two sources, that Ramirez declined to speak to the New York Times and the Washington Post, about her allegations. So while the accusations were floating around – she only shared her story directly with the New Yorker. — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 24, 2018

Weird unless you take note of who the writers at the New Yorker were: Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer. The two writers who have done a great deal of work in this area of journalism.

Farrow essentially set off the #MeToo movement with the story on Harvey Weinstein, and Mayer joined him for a massive story that led to the resignation of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

It’s all speculative, of course, and it could be coincidental… but it’s just as speculative and possibly as coincidental as a lot of the stuff going around about Kavanaugh right now – stuff his fraternity did, the fact that he was a big drinker, etc.

These are all speculations. But, they are all taken as solid evidence that Kavanaugh regularly sexually assaults women when, in fact, no such real evidence exists.

The fact that other outlets hesitated, especially the Post and the Times, tells you a lot about the strength of the claim.

EDIT: Farrow is pushing back against the idea that other outlets passed. His statement can be found here.