More details emerge in Jeffrey Toobin Zoom scandal

12/16/20
 
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from New York Post,
12/15/20:

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.

CNN’s Zucker Amenable to Return of Zoom Wanker Jeffrey Toobin.

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.

“It wasn’t a full-out sexual act…

Despite his supposed downfall, Toobin is holding on to his post as senior legal analyst at CNN, where he’s on leave, and has several Hollywood projects in development, the Times reported.

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.

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