Posted on 01/11/2018 4:33:56 AM PST by Kaslin
Right before Christmas it was announced that veteran reporter James Rosen was out at Fox News. No explanation was given. After New Years, Rosen tweeted that he hoped to detail his future plans soon. Well, National Public Radio is reporting that Rosen’s departure was hastened due to allegations of sexual harassment:
The network cited no reason for Rosen's exit and did not announce it on the air. According to Rosen's former colleagues, however, he had an established pattern of flirting aggressively with many peers and had made sexual advances toward three female Fox News journalists, including two reporters and a producer. And his departure followed increased scrutiny of his behavior at the network, according to colleagues.
This story is based on interviews with eight of Rosen's former colleagues at the Fox News bureau in Washington, D.C., just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Rosen declined to comment to NPR after it set out in detail what it intended to report.
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Current and former Fox News Washington journalists characterize the Washington bureau as retaining something of a Mad Men ethos, with some male reporters frequently sending racy "topline" notes through the network's internal messaging service.
The accusations against Rosen, who is married with young children, are more severe than that. He developed a reputation as a talented and ambitious journalist called "the professor" by former political anchor Brit Hume on the air for his interest in Watergate (Rosen wrote a book focusing on the life of former Attorney General John Mitchell that argued for a kinder re-assessment of his role in that Nixon-era scandal). Rosen has sent such messages, according to his former female co-workers. But in three instances he made overt physical and sexual overtures, according to the accounts of numerous former Fox News colleagues who heard about the incidents contemporaneously.
In the winter following the September 2001 terror attacks, a female Fox News reporter joined the bureau from New York. In a shared cab ride back from a meal, Rosen groped her, grabbing her breast. After she rebuffed his advance, Rosen sought to steal away her sources and stories related to his interests in diplomacy and national security. That's according to four colleagues who say she relayed the episode as a warning about Rosen's behavior. The reporter declined to comment for this story. (NPR has decided not to name the women in this article as they have not granted permission to do so.)
In a subsequent episode several years later, a female producer covering the State Department alleged that Rosen had directly sexually harassed her. A foreign national, she subsequently accepted a deal from Fox that enabled her to extend her stay in the U.S. in exchange for not making her complaint public, according to several of her former colleagues. The producer, who now works for a foreign-based news organization, is abroad with family and did not respond to several detailed messages left by email and phone seeking comment.
I appreciate all the good wishes you have sent to me and I hope to bring you news about my future endeavors soon.— James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) January 2, 2018
Rosen had been with the network for nearly two decades. He gained increased notoriety when he became a target of the Obama administration in 2013. Rosen reported about North Korea’s nuclear program, which was leaked by a former State Department contractor, who pled guilty to giving Rosen classified information in 2014. The story involved the communist conducting nuclear tests. The Obama administration named Rosen a potential criminal co-defendant in the affidavit. Rosen was being charged for seeking information, which many said was a gross First Amendment violation. The surveillance of Rosen was quite extensive:
According to court documents, two days’ worth of Rosen’s personal e-mails, documents, and attachments stored in a Gmail account were seized as were all his historic emails to a Yahoo account used by the alleged source, State Dept. security adviser Stephen Jin-Woo Kim. The feds obtained authorization to seize information showing Rosen’s communication with “any other source" related to the leak and also demanded Google turn over IP addresses and other metadata stored by the reporter’s Gmail account. In addition, investigators tracked Rosen’s movements to and from the State Department using security badge access records, and the timings of his calls with Jin-Woo Kim were traced.
Feds targeted FOX reporter James Rosen
And now, he’s out due to possible sexual harassment.
Very ungentlemanly behavior...stealing those sources.
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God, I hope he gets work somewhere else where he can be accepted even though he has been known to "flirt aggressively".
I'm sure glad I grew up dating back in the 60's. Life was much simpler and wiser then.
I'm also glad that my wife of 44 years let me flirt aggressively.
It’s also possible that females have found a surefire way to get rid of any males who are competing against them in their chosen line of business - just accuse them of sexual harassment, and the company will immediately fire them. It doesn’t seem to matter if the male in question is the company’s biggest ratings producer, one of their best reporters, or maybe even entirely innocent. He’s a man, so he’s guilty!
NPR’s story was long-winded on the problems with Fox. I didn’t hear any reference that NPR itself has some big league lecher problesm resultng in departures. How many “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” coffee mugs had to be earned to pay for the shut-up-and-go-away money?
Unquestionably that some of the accusations, maybe even most now, are just females wanting to get rid of undesirable males.
I’m tired of this crap. I flirted, sometimes vigorously, with fellow employees. I didn’t grope, I didn’t use any seniority to demand sexual favors. I dated various fellow employees. Funny thing is 37 years ago I dated one woman who shortly thereafter, I married. Still married.
This is normal human activity. If the guy is married it’s then up to the woman to give him the brush off. Or not. What they do knowingly after that is their own business.
Or that the suits have found a way to get rid of any reporter not willing to toe the line.
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This really ought to be an article about JUAN WILLIAMS.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/21/AR2010102102009.html
Post reporter Williams apologizes for 'innappropriate' verbal conduct ------ Howard Kurtz
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The smirking, sanctimonious and repulsive Juan had about 50 women calling him out for bad behavior.
Another good man falls prey to pu$$y politics.
Where is the due process?
This is much the same as shaming rape victims IMHO.
The freedoms of America are waning.
This kind of behavior is rampant in the entertainment/news business. A producer even exposed himself to Shirley Temple when she was a child.
Nothing surprised me about it.
Why would any man hire a woman in their business anymore? You are just setting yourself up.
ping to # 9
I’ve always considered Rosen a reputable reporter with rare integrity and insight.
How can these women be credible.....they aren’t even named.
It sounds like nothingburgers to me......just to bring down a good man
“I’m sure glad I grew up dating back in the 60’s. Life was much simpler and wiser then.”
Exactly what I was thinking. If I turned in everyone who flirted aggressively with me or tried to kiss me, or even touched/grabbed me... You just turn away and say, “No.”. It’s over. If it’s NOT over for him at that point, then there’s a problem.
NOT ONE complainant was named.
How is that for due process?
“I’m sure glad I grew up dating back in the 60’s. Life was much simpler and wiser then.”
Exactly what I was thinking. If I turned in everyone who flirted aggressively with me or tried to kiss me, or even touched/grabbed me... You just turn away and say, “No.”. It’s over. If it’s NOT over for him at that point, then there’s a problem.
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That is too true. It's tough to enter an elevator with only a woman inside these days.
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LOL ....... see # 3.
Obama lover anyway.
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