âI will not waste this reckoning,â Leon Wieseltier, the former literary editor of The New Republic said this week in a statement. Wieseltierâs reckoning came shortly after it was reported that nearly a dozen women had accused him of sexual harassment during his long tenure at the magazine. He went on to offer aâŚ
Three more women have come forward with sexual harassment allegations against political journalist, commentator, and Game Change author Mark Halperin, totaling the current number of accusers to eight.
Hours after CNN published a report in which five women alleged that prominent political journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed them at ABC News, HBO and MSNBC have announced they are cutting ties with the writer.
In a CNN investigation published on Wednesday, Mark Halperin, an influential journalist and political analyst who co-authored the bestselling book Game Change, was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women who worked with him while he was political director at ABC News. Halperin is currently an analysis for NBCâŚ
Despite my constant screaming into the abyss about how the culture does not need fictionalized television representations of the 2016 election, it looks like weâre getting another one.
Showtimeâs The Circus is absolutely the best television coverage of the 2016 Presidential Campaign, loaded with behind-the-scenes access, frank candidate interviews, and swift-footed editing with an artful filmic quality to it. (Though itâs a weekly show airing on Sundays, theyâll often incorporate important eventsâŚ
from a blow-by-blow account as the White House Press Corps follows Barack and Michelle Obama's motorcade to daughter Sasha's school this morning. [Time Magazine's The Page]
Since the world learned that Elizabeth Edwards is, in fact, not a saint but a monster, the internet fur has been flying. And the Daily Beast has yet another narrative for us:
As mentioned earlier, this week's NY Magazine published a meaty excerpt from Game Change, the salacious new tell-all on the 2008 election, whose authors describe "a gap between public façade and private reality." Code: Elizabeth Edwards is a bitch:
"Harry Reid Racist" is the seventh most searched term on Google, thanks to a new book called Game Change. John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's gossipy, behind the scenes look at the 2008 campaign is creating some political fallout.
What's in Going Rogue? According to Mark Halperin, "score settling with McCain aides" and (duh) "a hearty bashing of the national media." What's not: an index. But how will we navigate through all of Palin's incredibly useful information? [The Page]
