Posted on 12/11/2017 1:15:59 PM PST by billorites
he longtime host of one of NPR's most successful programs has been suspended while the network investigates sexual misconduct allegations.
The allegations against "On Point" host Tom Ashbrook include that he engaged in "creepy" sex talks and gave unwanted hugs, neck and back rubs to 11 mostly young women and men who worked on the show. They were contained in a document and confirmed in multiple interviews by WBUR-FM, the Boston station that produces the show.
Ashbrook was put on leave last week.
In a text to the station, Ashbrook said: "I am sure that once the facts come out that people will see me for who I am — flawed but caring and decent in all my dealings with others."
"On Point" is carried by more than 290 NPR stations. Ashbrook has hosted for 16 years.
NPR’s chief editor, Michael Oreskes, also recently resigned in the midst of sexual harassment allegations of his own, along with Chief News Editor David Sweeney. Earlier this month, famed "A Prairie Home Companion" host Garrison Keillor was let go from Minnesota Public Radio for the same reason.
Another recent bombshell report to rock the liberal radio network said NPR journalist John Hockenberry had sexually harassed and and bullied colleagues for years before he retired, seemingly out of the blue, in August. The article's author, Suki Kim, said she reported her experiences working with Hockenberry to Walker in February, long before the tidal wave of sexual harassment stories, starting with Harvey Weinstein, began.
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Just defund NPR already.
What’s that? THREE now from NPR?.................
Ashbrook is a former Boston Globe “journalist.”
Another most likely liberal sexual predator enabled by the Clintons and Gloria Steinem.
Someone tell Nina to turn the lights out when she leaves.
So, is there a Viagra plant nearby NPR?..............
Who next? Mister Rodgers????
Another one bites the dirt.
Click and Clack always joked about they being on the air was an embarrassment to NPR. NPR is sooo proper and classy. Maybe Click and Clack were the classy ones, grease and all.
Who’s Tom Ashbrook?
I miss them....................
I find that hard to believe.
I don’t know... there was always something creepy about Mr. Rodgers and mr. Green Jeans... :)
For some time a nurse that I used to work with and I had a running debate on Pee Wee Herman.She claimed that he was great and that his show was fantastic.I argued that he was creepy and that there was something seriously wrong with him.
Of course it finally became clear that I was right...
Btt
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