AlterNet is a progressive/lefty (pretty far left, in some cases) news site that's been toiling away since 1997, making it venerable in terms of the life of the internet and the World Wide Web. Apparently, its executive editor, longtime progressive stalwart Don Hazen, is now being accused of sexual harassment by at least five women. When Buzzfeed (of course it would have to be Buzzfeed) went to AlterNet's board of directors for comment they immediately placed Hazen on indefinite suspension while the accusations are investigated.
Allegations by the women range from making inappropriate comments in the workplace (we're all dead in the water if that's the standard by which such claims are going to be judged) to some touching and kissing by Hazen, who'd recently done an interview about the Orange-Haired Wonder and the resurgence of "toxic masculinity" since his election. Buzzfeed also claims it has spoken with 11 additional people and that it even has seen chat messages that back up the claims made by those women.
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Allegations by the women range from making inappropriate comments in the workplace (we're all dead in the water if that's the standard by which such claims are going to be judged) to some touching and kissing by Hazen, who'd recently done an interview about the Orange-Haired Wonder and the resurgence of "toxic masculinity" since his election. Buzzfeed also claims it has spoken with 11 additional people and that it even has seen chat messages that back up the claims made by those women.
"Tana Ganeva, a former AlterNet employee, worked for the site first as an editorial assistant and then in other editing roles in San Francisco, from February 2008 to June 2011, before becoming its managing editor, based in New York, until February 2016…
Ganeva said Hazen would take photographs and videos of her at work, without her explicit consent, and comment on her “perfect legs” and other parts of her body. He’d also remark when she gained or lost weight…
At one one-on-one meeting over editorial matters in winter 2011, Ganeva said Hazen started showing her a personal collection of printed photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, “primarily of young women he said he had dated,” she said. Then he handed her a black and white photograph of his erect penis, which she said he called “artistic.”
“I took the photo the way one does when someone hands you something and you haven’t processed what it is, looked at the picture of his erect penis, then handed it back to him,” she said. “I don’t think I said anything. It was sort of an arty photo, I guess, but I really wasn’t happy to have an image of my boss’s erect dick emblazoned in my brain.”"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/...pkNz2jpoy#.gfG042qxR
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."