Ronan Farrow, the blue-eyed Yale graduate, Rhodes scholar and son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen (or even Frank Sinatra), says his upcoming MSNBC show will be for “the average Joe.”
“I am super-psyched,” he told us at Monday’s Blue Card Benefit at the American Museum of Natural History. “My feeling . . . is that there’s a frustration in how passive the experience of receiving news can be. I think that the time is right to step in with a show that’s all about giving you, the average Joe at home, the tool set on how you can get involved.”
While he’s just 25, Farrow’s show isn’t geared to young people.
“Whether you are literally young or young in grappling with a lot of the dark and troubling stories about our leadership . . . there is a shared frustration and a shared desire to answer ‘What do we do next?’ ” Farrow, whose résumé includes work for UNICEF, the Barack Obama administration and Hillary Clinton, has gotten advice from network poster girl Rachel Maddow, who he says told him, “Phrase every question as a statement.”