[5] Masters was[3] a staff reporter for The Washington Post,[6][7][8] a correspondent for NPR, and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair,[3] Time,[9] and Esquire.
[12] In 2000, Masters quit Time to work for Inside magazine, founded by Kurt Andersen and Michael Hirschorn (2000-2001).
[17] In 2017, Masters' article, on sexual harassment claims against Roy Price, head of Amazon Studios, was declined by The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, BuzzFeed News, and others, before being published in August by The Information.
[24][25] Entertainment Weekly gave the book a mixed review, calling it a "lacerating, 450-page takedown," but also writing that it contains "way too much inside baseball to anybody outside the New York-Los Angeles media axis.
Publishers Weekly called the book "a shocking read that will have readers gasping at the obscene overindulgence of Hollywood.