Will Caleb Hannan ever address the Dr. V story?

Maybe he's just a young kid who fucked up and he realizes there's no defense for it, and ceded the apology to someone more experienced with being in the public eye.

If you want to argue he deserves to be vilified forever or doesn't deserve another chance, go for it.

 

Ugh. Glenn Beck talks about Glenn Beck, and the "attacks" on him every show.

You might not like the answer, but he doesn't avoid himself as a topic.

He addressed the "Obama doesn't like white people" (or whatever it was he said).

He didn't go into hiding. He's on the radio and TV/Internet every day. He does media and takes calls from listeners. I'm not sure how it's analogous.

I'm not sure Hannan's even gone to the Supermarket. Has anyone seen him, or heard from him?

 

Not sure why you're obsessing over this when there's Benghazi.

 

He's a 31-year-old, married man, who's worked as an author and editor for a number of years now.

 

When a publication addresses a controversial issue, they have usually have one spokesperson and instruct the other employees to defer comment to that spokesperson.

YankeeFan, predictably, won't ever let this go.

 

Didn't Hannan say he was going to address it, though?

And he's not a Grantland employee.

 

If he got paid for writing the story, he's an employee. Freelancers are still employees.

 

No, they aren't.

 

If he was working on a contract, and I'd guess he was, then he's a contractor and that would make him an employee by some definitions.

 

Not by any definition that I am aware of.

 

Regardless of his temporary employment status, as a man and as someone whose name is his marketing tool he should have something to say. I suppose there's some chance that ESPN could have ordered him not to say anything, but I doubt that.

Maybe he is writing a Longform (TM) apology and it will show up in six months.

 

Look, I don't doubt that Hannan may, out of self-interest, elect to defer to Grantland's wishes and not speak up on his own behalf. He may want to get work from them again, for example, which would make following their requests a good idea.

But I don't think this is a case where an employee goes along with the corporate strategy for damage control. He's not an employee. He's just not. Also, I feel like most journalists do issue their own statements or discuss their mistakes, even employees. The newscaster who thought Samuel L. Jackson was Lawrence Fishburne did. Lara Logan did. Dan Rather did.

Jonah Lehrer.

Mark Halperin.