This week, the New Yorker ran a long piece by Jane Mayer re-examining the sexual harassment allegations against Al Franken, a piece which minimized the accusations themselves while giving Franken ample space to defend himself. While the piece contained some unflattering new revelations about Leeann Tweeden’s story, the conservative radio host who made the first public accusation, it was notably weaker in dealing with the other women who made accusations of groping, harassment and unwanted kissing.
Photo: AP Imagesran a long piece by Jane Mayer re-examining the sexual harassment allegations against Al Franken, a piece which minimized the accusations themselves. While the piece contained some unflattering new revelations about Leeann Tweeden’s story, the conservative radio host who made the first public accusation, it was notably weaker in dealing with the other women who made accusations of groping, harassment and unwanted kissing.
Christian Avard, a local reporter, witnessed it, and told me, “I think it was supposed to be ‘Thank you very much,’ but it looked like a bad kiss on his part.”The woman told us that Mayer contacted her for comment several weeks ago, and that the two had a conversation the woman insisted remain off the record. She maintains that she didn’t hear from Mayer again until several days before the piece ran, when the reporter called to tell her that the piece was running soon.
Lazar eventually responded to the woman by text and the two spoke on the phone. But soon after, the woman decided not to continue talking to Lazar because she simply wasn’t ready to go on the record. With her permission, we’re sharing the text exchange, with her name redacted:pursued the story, but it stalled permanently when the woman decided she wasn’t ready, telling Lazar, “I’m not ready to go on the record. Thanks for talking with me this morning and for the important work you’re doing.
It’s curious, then, that Mayer appears to have taken KABC’s word for it that they also investigated the woman’s claim and found it lacking, given that she convincingly spends quite a lot of her piece showing the outlet is an essentially partisan one without a ton of regard for normal fact-checking procedures.
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