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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJuan Willams, sexual harassment poster child, prototype
This article is incredible, the clips below don't do it justice. It is also just the tip of the iceberg
Washington Post
November 2, 1991
Magazine reporter Juan Williams said yesterday that the newspaper has disciplined him for what he called "wrong" and "inappropriate" verbal conduct toward women staffers and he apologized to his colleagues.
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The disclosure came five days after a Williams column on The Post's op-ed page in which he said that Anita Hill had "no credible evidence" for her allegations of sexual harassment by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, but that Hill was "prompted" to make her charges by Democratic Senate staffers.
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Seven women said in on-the-record interviews yesterday that Williams had repeatedly made hostile and sexually explicit comments to them, in some cases over a period of several years.
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Jo Ellen Murphy, art director of the Weekend section, said that "he was obsessed with my sex life and that's all he wanted to talk to me about . . . . I raised my voice at him and said, 'Just don't talk to me again.' "
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Juan Willams, sexual harassment poster child, prototype (Original Post)
spotthebird
Dec 2017
OP
Article is from Saturday, November 2, 1991; 12:01 AM - Was t'Internet around then ?
OnDoutside
Dec 2017
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OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)1. Article is from Saturday, November 2, 1991; 12:01 AM - Was t'Internet around then ?
Interesting that Howard Kurtz wrote the article.
spotthebird
(171 posts)3. A little bit, but not for this article nt
marybourg
(12,633 posts)2. That man just simply has no redeeming qualities. nt
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)4. Surprised, but not shocked.
dchill
(38,503 posts)5. Forced to resign yet?
mcar
(42,334 posts)6. This is from 1991
What is the point?
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)7. Does this explain why he works for Fox? nt