The hypothetical losses of the women he might have harmed

April 2, 2019 8:39 PM

Irin Carmon on unsuccessful efforts to publish a story later broken by Ronan Farrow (previously) a about CBS leadership sexual harassment allegations. “The system,” I said from the stage, “is still powerful men getting stories killed that I believe will one day see the light of day.”
posted by lab.beetle (4 comments total)

NYMag writes about WaPo fighting within itself about a story which ends up in The New Yorker.

I mean, I'm sort of left shaking my head at that, in and of itself.

The whole way this story was blocked over and over is utterly not surprising. Controlling a newspaper means you get to try to make choices. Hell, there's a series of scandals involving the family that owns the local paper in Spokane which have gone mostly not in their record, but the local independent paper has done in-depth reporting on which is severely damning, like, every single fucking scandal, they are the bad guys.

Yay people who run newspapers!
posted by hippybear at 9:31 PM on April 2, 2019 [8 favorites]

Carmon and her fellow reporter had their story killed by gutless Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron, but without the work they did I don't think Farrow's story could have existed.

And now we'll see whether Baron will long survive the revelations of this piece.

I doubt it very much – and I certainly hope not.
posted by jamjam at 11:45 PM on April 2, 2019

Baron's losing a lot of the shine he earned from Spotlight.
posted by suelac at 8:33 AM on April 3, 2019

This story did an excellent job of making me want to burn it all down!
posted by medusa at 9:29 AM on April 3, 2019 [1 favorite]