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Steve Chaggaris, the political director for CBS News, was fired by the network after accounts of inappropriate behavior surfaced. In a statement, CBS News announced it had severed ties with Mr. Chaggaris for violating company policy, effective immediately.
Since 2012, Chaggaris served as the outlets senior political editor, then was promoted to political director in March 2017.
Chaggaris like many other male journalists who have recently been outed, disciplined, and fired for sexually predatory behavior was in a position to shape the extremely negative and often blatantly sexist coverage of Hillary Clintons historical presidential campaign.
As Rebecca Traister wrote in The New York Times, Many of the male journalists who stand accused of sexual harassment were on the forefront of covering the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
She added:
A pervasive theme of all of these mens coverage of Mrs. Clinton was that she was dishonest and unlikable. These recent harassment allegations suggest that perhaps the problem wasnt that Mrs. Clinton was untruthful or inherently hard to connect with, but that these particular men hold deep biases against women who seek power instead of sticking to acquiescent sex-object status.
Complaints about the sexist nature of Clinton coverage were often dismissed or minimized, despite the mainstream medias well-documented pattern of such behavior.
Now with these firings and revelations, those concerns turned out to have been very real. Several of the men who were determining up to cover Clinton and which issues should receive the most focus her emails, her trustworthiness, her likability were at the very same time were mistreating and abusing women.
In addition to Chaggaris, men at some of the nations most influential outlets including NBC, CBS, The New York Times, and PBS were setting up Clinton while misbehaving behind closed doors.
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delisen
(6,044 posts)Those newspeople identify with Trump and other "strongman" bullies, and a woman as president is a nightmare scenario to them.
They helped bring us into the hell we are in today and they are not going to help us get out of it.
We need to get beyond the patriarchal bs if we are going to win back democracy.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Its beyond just being propositioned or flirted with- its always putting a womans job and future employment on the line. Its life altering in most cases.
delisen
(6,044 posts)right now.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Because these guys can be as vindictive as they are abusive. Hope things get better for your friends.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Matt Lauer and the emails: How accused harassers conjured a fake Hillary scandal
Men accused of harassment and abuse shared a bizarre obsession with Clintons emails. This is not a coincidence
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm confident someone will do the heavy lifting of looking over the story selection and subsequent reports that made it on the air or into publication. Les Moonves of CBS is already on record as saying that his news department was going easy on Trump because Trump was just so darned good for ratings. Makes you wonder how CBS would have covered the Manson murders if old Charlie had a better Q rating.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Trump's excessive coverage was good for ratings, not that they'd go easy on him.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Their hides will be nailed to a wall from now on if they misbehave. I don't buy the argument that innocent men can be framed, innocent men should be able to prove they are innocent of sexual misconduct and find coworkers who can help confirm that they are - I have always known who the loutish men were in my working environment.
dsc
(52,166 posts)were secretly members of the Klan no one would have any doubt, would they.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)people spread out over three states to swing the election.
dsc
(52,166 posts)is common in some work places. I have certainly been physically and even emotionally attracted to men with whom I happened to work but I wouldn't dream of behaving in anything like the way that apparently was fairly common in many workplaces.
yardwork
(61,703 posts)Now we learn that some of the same men responsible for the biased reporting - Chaggaris, Halperin, Lauer - were sexually harassing female emoloyees.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)they STILL do
This is ridiculous.
betsuni
(25,615 posts)Anyone who says otherwise is ridiculous.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)Lauer's rude, interrupting questionning of her about her emails, compared to the softballs he gave Trump, is a prime example.