The thing is...
Anybody who was alive and in and around journalism in Shalit’s heyday could have known this would end badly. Exactly the same kind of shit and subsequent excuses that happened back then. Exactly.
Anybody who was alive and in and around journalism in Shalit’s heyday could have known this would end badly. Exactly the same kind of shit and subsequent excuses that happened back then. Exactly.
https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1322428897758269441
“Through her attorney, Sloane informed us that she does not, in fact, have a son. We have independently corroborated that Sloane does not have a son, and we have corrected the story to remove the reference to her having a son.”
My god.
My god.
Also...I haven’t lived in DC since the early 90s but I can assure you that her behavior back then—and that of those who initially covered for it—utterly transfixed and enraged a generation of her journalistic peers.
She still owes Klaidman a real fucking apology, for one thing.
She still owes Klaidman a real fucking apology, for one thing.
Anyway thankfully one of those who came up in the exact same era has a job as a media reporter... @ErikWemple.
A fact which should been known/factored in to decision to pub her. And he’s not even alone in that same combination of era/job!
A fact which should been known/factored in to decision to pub her. And he’s not even alone in that same combination of era/job!
“Sloane’s World”
All the worst fabulists—and I once edited a Stephen Glass* story—play to our prejudices and preconceptions.
*i have publicly disagreed with people far more burned by him than I about giving him a 3rd chance. Journalistic exile is not a death sentence, it’s a prophylactic.
*i have publicly disagreed with people far more burned by him than I about giving him a 3rd chance. Journalistic exile is not a death sentence, it’s a prophylactic.
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