Life comes at the media really fast these days.
Here's a fine selection of recent smears from the New York Daily News, a lefty tabloid with all the standards of an AlterNet blogger...
Before Trump’s first SOTU, projection on his D.C. hotel calls for probe into his alleged sexual misconduct - 2 Days ago
Halsey poem recounts sexual assault, calls out Trump - Jan 21
Fox News killed story on Trump's sexual encounter - Jan 16
Second porn star claims Trump invited her to hotel - Jan 12
Dems to bring sexual assault survivors to Trump's State of the Union - Jan 11
What fine upstanding folk these New York Daily News people must be.
Two top editors at the Daily News, who have been suspended since late last week as parent company Tronc conducted an investigation into numerous sexual harassment complaints, have been fired, Media Ink has learned.
Rob Moore, the managing editor, news, and Alexander “Doc” Jones, the Sunday editor, were suspended last Friday in the midst of ongoing investigations.
Several ex-Daily News female reporters had come forward in recent weeks and filed complaints against the two alleging of sexual harassment.
A Tronc spokeswoman confirmed Thursday that both editors “are no longer with the company.”
No one cares about workers like lefties. Just ask Ralph Nader or Michael Moore's traumatized workers. Or anyone who works at the Daily News.
At the New York Daily News, the managing editor, Rob Moore, has been heard on more than one occasion offering a piece of advice to those around him: Don’t go to human resources to complain about me, or you’re out of here.
“I heard that with my own ears,” said a former female staffer. “It was like his motto.”
This wasn’t bluster. This was a tactic. A second former staffer said Moore for years would brag openly about punishing or firing employees who complained about him ― specifically as a warning to other would-be complainants. The message was well understood, and it reverberated around the newsroom. New York Daily News employees warned one another not to get on Moore’s “bad side,” said a third former staffer.
If only there had been a reporter around at this news organization to report on this scandal. But they were probably all busy accusing President Trump of anything and everything.
In the office, he had a habit of calling employees over to show them photos of women he’d slept with, according to multiple former staffers.
I'm waiting for the Slatest hot take where everything he did gets blamed on the "culture" created by Trump.
. “The whole newsroom had this really misogynistic undertone,” said one staffer. “They were all running around behaving in terrible ways, creating a sexualized environment and a toxic environment. It took a lot of people in charge to do that.”
It's almost like the media is run by hypocrites who are feminists in front of a microphone and creeps the rest of the time.
At least six people HuffPost spoke to used the word “bully” to describe Moore. “You’re never supposed to be afraid of your editor, but he was one of those editors who would honestly strike fear into you,” said one former staffer.
“He didn’t treat people professionally,” another former staffer said. “He would hold grudges based on stuff that had nothing to do with the office. It didn’t take him long to size you up as someone he liked or didn’t like, and it often had nothing to do with the quality of your work.”
Considering Moore’s threats about firing or laying off those who complained about him, some employees worried that any complaint lodged against him would end in their dismissal.
“That’s why nobody reported him to HR ― you’d get in trouble,” said one former staffer. “You just kind of kept your head down and tried to keep out of his field of attack.”
If only there had been a reporter around, surely he wouldn't have gotten away with it.
Moore isn’t alone in being investigated. On Thursday, HuffPost confirmed that Tronc is also looking into allegations of workplace harassment against Alexander “Doc” Jones, the managing editor of the Sunday desk. Six employees HuffPost spoke to said Jones had a “pattern” of behaving creepily toward young women in the newsroom.
“As a woman starting a job at the Daily News, you’re given a card key and a warning about Doc,” a current staffer told us.
But just like with Harvey Weinstein, the warnings were just quiet whispered things. Everyone knew.
The accusations include multiple incidents of forcible kissing, and five employees told us that Jones had a penchant for bringing young women to his side of the newsroom for the sole purpose of ogling them.
“I stopped wearing dresses to work. I stopped wearing makeup, too,” another employee said. “I purposely tried to not look like myself for fear of being summoned to Doc’s desk.”
Now why did Rob Moore think he could get away with it? Why were employees so sure that he was untouchable?
The Daily News’ Robert F. Moore will receive the annual Trailblazer Award from the New York Association of Black Journalists.
Moore joined The News as a staff writer in 2004 and became the 97-year-old tabloid’s first African-American managing editor in 2011 before a promotion to Head of News, his current position.
“Your steady climb from a staff writer to your current management position is an inspiration to journalists everywhere,” read a letter from the NYABJ informing Moore of the award.
Maybe he was slightly less inspiring to his victims.