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LA Times chief Ross Levinsohn on leave after claims of "frat-boy" conduct
CBS "News" ^ | January 19, 2018 | CBS/AP

Posted on 01/20/2018 7:04:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Los Angeles Times Publisher and Chief Executive Ross Levinsohn has been given an unpaid leave of absence amid allegations that he engaged in improper "frat-boy" behavior while working for other companies.

National Public Radio reported the allegations of crude conduct and said Levinsohn was a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits before he joined the Times as publisher in August. The story also said Levinsohn admitted to rating the physical attractiveness of female colleagues at a digital media company where he worked prior to joining the Los Angeles paper.

Some Times employees had called for Levinsohn to be fired.

News of the probe came as journalists with the paper voted to unionize for the first time in the paper's 136-year history.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
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1 posted on 01/20/2018 7:04:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Levinsohn admitted to rating the physical attractiveness of female colleagues"

Is it possible to NOT do that?

2 posted on 01/20/2018 7:06:50 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was in a frat.

We didn’t harass women.

Where does the frat boy association come from?

Could it be the guy was just scum?


3 posted on 01/20/2018 7:07:04 AM PST by Eddie01 (Stormy Kromer)
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To: Paladin2

I suspect they mean that he did this in some sort of public venue, perhaps online, rather than silently to himself.


4 posted on 01/20/2018 7:28:31 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's the end of the world as we know it ... if the sky is falling, I don't want to be below it.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Judging from the quality of that “newspaper”, one would have thought these sterling qualifications for the job.


5 posted on 01/20/2018 7:55:32 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Levinsohn admitted to rating the physical attractiveness of female colleagues at a digital media company where he worked

I have a confession to make...

6 posted on 01/20/2018 7:59:23 AM PST by dead
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Levinsohn was a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits before he joined the Times.
Shows you just how much the Times checks things out duh ensues.


7 posted on 01/20/2018 9:39:38 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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