More details emerged Tuesday in Jeffrey Toobin’s caught-on-Zoom masturbation saga — as Malcolm Gladwell and others rushed to the disgraced journalist’s defense. New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen described in a New York Times article the now-infamous Oct. 15 video call that led to Toobin’s fall from grace. CNN'S JEFFREY TOOBIN FIRED BY NEW YORKER MAGAZINE FOLLOWING ZOOM CALL MASTURBATION INCIDENTThe star writer was suspended and later fired from The New Yorker, where he’d worked for nearly three decades. Still, Gessen and other top media figures — including Gladwell — whined that Toobin’s public flogging was unfair. “They just assumed he had done something terrible, but never told us what the terrible thing was,” Gladwell, a New Yorker writer himself, told the newspaper.

Source: Fox News December 15, 2020 23:01 UTC