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The undoing of New Yorker journalist Jeffrey Toobin
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How a leading man of legal journalism lost his sweetest gig.
Until Jeffrey Toobin s fateful appointment with Zoom on October 15, his quarantine was going better than most people s. In August, his eighth book, True Crimes and Misdemeanours: The Investigation of Donald Trump, about Robert Mueller s inquiry into election meddling, was published, getting positive reviews and a brief berth on the New York Times bestseller list. His third, about the Monica Lewinsky scandal, is being filmed by Ryan Murphy for a limited series on FX.
And over on HBO, he was about to appear as himself on the whodunit The Undoing, delivering commentary on the murder trial that shapes the story s arc.
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December 17, 2020 at 9:28 AM
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Toobin in the days before Zoom. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)
Hey, did you hear that Jeffrey Toobin lost his job because he took his dick out and seemingly masturbated during a work meeting? You might have missed it while the entire world was on fire this year, but it happened. In the annals of inappropriate behavior, there are worse things out there. That said, it is
still wildly inappropriate and just because he didn’t assault someone or burn the office down doesn’t make it any more acceptable. It’s sexual harassment. Full stop.
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The New York Times posted an article on The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin on Tuesday by reporters Katherine Rosman and Jacob Bernstein. The main takeaway is that CNN executives are still unwilling to discuss his future, which means he s not fired. A spokeswoman confirmed Toobin was still CNN s chief legal analyst, but would not comment further.
Three CNN employees say that CNN boss Jeff Zucker is a big fan of Mr. Toobin’s and a believer in second chances. But Mr. Zucker may be leaving CNN in 2021, making his opinion perhaps irrelevant. Toobin s offense is described:
While working on a podcast about the presidential election for WNYC and The New Yorker with some of the magazine’s other well-known journalists, including Jane Mayer and [ non-binary ] Masha Gessen,