What is going on in Washington?

[SoloFlyer]

Which journalists?

I know if I'm The Athletic I'm kind of wondering why a reporter that works for The Athletic is being harashed while the Washington Post does the news-breaking. Or maybe that's standard, in the sense that if it were a Post reporter, The Athletic would break the news. Seems odd.

Indeed, though I didn't see anyone from The Athletic hyping it up beforehand. Perhaps there was concern that the outlet was too close to the incident, since it involved one its own? Not sure I buy that, but that could be the thought.

As far as the problematic journalists, it's been my experience that it's mostly local radio and TV reporters. They were the most prominent hypers with this story, though there were others. It's been my experience that many local TV/radio crews are more concerned with access than investigative work. I'm not absolving print/web/national broadcasters. And not every local TV/radio crew does it. It's just been my experience.

 

[SoloFlyer]

WaPo does a story on all the speculation, calls out a local TV station for being especially egregious.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...fc089a-c7a2-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html

 

[Alma]

WaPo does a story on all the speculation, calls out a local TV station for being especially egregious.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...fc089a-c7a2-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html

Good story.

I imagine The Athletic stayed out of it to give respect to the writer - personally, I found what happened to her to be among the worst things, just a shocking diminishment of a professional journalist.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Which journalists?

I know if I'm The Athletic I'm kind of wondering why a reporter that works for The Athletic is being harashed while the Washington Post does the news-breaking. Or maybe that's standard, in the sense that if it were a Post reporter, The Athletic would break the news. Seems odd.

There was way more to that story than Rhiannon Walker's sexual harashment incident. The WaPo story documents a pattern with multiple incidents, and the reporting involved interviews with more than 40 current and former employees and a review of text messages and internal company documents. The Athletic was probably aware of just the incident involving their reporter, but not aware of the rest of it. I can see them not going public with a story about one of their reporters saying she was sexually harashed. What they had was one incident that makes them part of the story, involving just one person in the organization. What the WaPo put together runs through the entire organization and involves a lot of incidents.

 

[Alma]

There was way more to that story than Rhiannon Walker's sexual harashment incident. The WaPo story documents a pattern with multiple incidents, and the reporting involved interviews with more than 40 current and former employees and a review of text messages and internal company documents. The Athletic was probably aware of just the incident involving their reporter, but not aware of the rest of it. I can see them not going public with a story about one of their reporters saying she was sexually harashed. What they had was one incident that makes them part of the story, involving just one person in the organization. What the WaPo put together runs through the entire organization and involves a lot of incidents.

Yeah, I read the story.

I'm gonna guess bits and pieces of it were known by lots of journalists. The key was getting someone to go on the record - which the Post did.

 

[The Big Ragu]

That is my sense, too, but who knows? I get the feeling everyone knew bits and pieces of shipty little things, but the two WaPo reporters were the ones who went out and did the work to put it all together. I know a lot of people were disappointed because of the way the thing was teased by a bunch of people on twitter creating silly expectations. But it's a very damning story about the culture within the organization, and it's pretty well done. They did a fine job in piecing it all together.

 

[tapintoamerica]

A timeline on this would be fascinating. It started with national and other DC media and then spread to fanboi Twitter, where the allegations became more and more disturbing -- sexual ashault vs. sexual harashment -- and specific (and false.)

 

[wicked]

The Athletic knew about the incidents and went to the team, this is covered in the Post story.

In a statement, the Athletic supported her account and confirmed the company's attorneys spoke with Redskins management about Walker's allegations.

"The Athletic unequivocally stands by Rhiannon Walker's account of the harashment she endured from Mr. Santos," the company said.

...

A few weeks later, team lawyers informed the Athletic that Santos had been disciplined but declined to specify how, Walker said.

 

[JayFarrar]

It also appears that D.C. is the first to officially kick high school football to the spring, so that's the other thing going on in Washington.

 

[JimmyHoward33]

It also appears that D.C. is the first to officially kick high school football to the spring, so that's the other thing going on in Washington.

not to thread jack but how the F is that supposed to work alongside baseball and lacrosse

 

[JayFarrar]

not to thread jack but how the F is that supposed to work alongside baseball and lacrosse

Washington Post sez ...

Winter sports — basketball and indoor track — will be the first teams tentatively planning to be back in action, with practices scheduled to begin Dec. 14 and games ranging from Jan. 4 to Feb. 28.
Fall sports — cross-country, football, volleyball and soccer — are scheduled to get underway Feb. 1, with games starting Feb. 22 and concluding April 16.
Spring sports — baseball, softball, tennis, ultimate disc, chess and track and field — are set to start March 29.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ostpones-fall-sports-plans-football-february/

 

[wicked]

Rhiannon Walker: 'I want to move forward from this'

Kudos to her for writing this.