Even The Wolf likely can't clean up Harvey Weinstein's pending troubles

Yes.

This story in the New York Times about misconduct at the New York Times is more proof that the New York Times is unwilling to cover the New York Times.

 

The Boston Globe did the opposite. It revealed the a writer was fired for sexual harassment but didn't release the name. The paper claimed it was the same standard as for any other private company which chose not to release the name of a fired, non-public employee. The decision was later reversed.

 

Yeah. Too bad no one at the New York Times has any sources at the New York Times.

If they did, maybe we’d get some details in this story.

Will they continue to report it out?

 

Why don't you point us to the nature of the misconduct? I must have read right over it.

 

Why?

I'm sure there'll be plenty of lurid details forthcoming, but why should there be any more or less interest in this personnel matter than one at Goldman Sachs or Ernst & Young or Delta Airlines?

I don't know the nature of the misconduct, nor is it specified in the story.

Maybe the guy was embezzling petty cash or padding his expense account.

No HR department is going to allow outside reporting on its internal decisions.

If this guy was a groper or harasser, those details will come out when the victims go to some other publication to tell their story.

 

LOL. "Outside reporting." You're missing the point.

Dean Baquet has a pretty good source on what happened. Because Dean Baquet is the source.

 

Dean Baquet also knows that as an HR matter, saying anything about why someone was cut loose is an invitation to a huge lawsuit.

 

True dat.

They have no trouble reporting why other companies dismiss people, though. It's incongruous particularly for the leaders of the #MeToo movement.

 

Disclosure for thee ... not for me.

 

That's why I said the (public) truth of this will be uncovered by "outside reporting." We'll find out from Vice or HuffPo or the New Yorker what happened.

 

Sort of.

They were certainly pretty frank about Glenn Thrush.

 

The Shitty Men in Media list might even be updated too.