Pretty sure it was Nina who claimed around the time of the Clarence Thomas hearings that she had been harassed at a previous job. Claimed she either left because of it or because she had filed a complaint. Liberal columnist Al Hunt was familiar with the situation, made it an “Outrage of the Week” because she had actually been let go due to plagiarism.
Maybe telling an outright lie,impugning the ethics of a prior employer, fall within NPR’s ethical guidelines.
Totenberg has charged that she was the victim of sexual harassment at the Observer. She said "I had a boss who made passes at me repeatedly," but has not named that person.[5] She was fired from that paper for plagiarism in 1972 regarding a profile she wrote of then-soon-to-be Speaker Tip O'Neill which included, without attribution, quotes from members of Congress that had previously appeared in The Washington Post. Such plagiarism has been called "one of the cardinal sins of journalism from which reporters can never recover their credibility",[6] but other reporters have defended her, saying the practice of using quotes in this manner was common journalistic practice in the 1970s.[4][7] Totenberg also links her dismissal to the sexual harassment case, saying it made her "unpopular with her superiors".[8] In 1995, Totenberg told the Columbia Journalism Review, "I have a strong feeling that a young reporter is entitled to one mistake and to have the holy bejeezus scared out of her to never do it again."[9]