I agree, but only when it is an isolated incident.
In this case, even if it was not contributing to the aura of a hostile work environment (and we don't know that others still felt that sleeping with the boss was the way to get advanced in that office), adversaries of FNC could still use it as the third disclosure in a year of an office environment gone bad.
For liberal activists trying to create a meme, it doesn't matter that the Hume affair was an isolated event from 10 years ago in a different office in different city; what matters is the timing of the press disclosures to create the perception of current wrongdoings.
Furthermore, Hume was the managing editor of the Washington DC, for many years. He was a founding talent who brought gravitas to the Fox News Channel. As such, liberal activists could accuse Hume of being an example of a "management" that turned a blind eye to the hostile work environment because they, themselves, were "doing it," and therefore call for his resignation to "drain the swamp" at FNC.
If an attack on Hume is successful along the lines of "he should have known about it and did nothing," then I can see them turning next to Neil Cavuto, who is a senior vice president at Fox News Channel. I don't think that there are any scandals in Cavuto's past, but he could become an executive target just because he's there and has three shows on the network.
All that said, Hume is in Washington and O'Reilly is in New York, so the former can't really be tied to the latter. Cavuto is in New York, too, but he has the firewall of being in the business bureau, not the news bureau, if that matters.
-PJ
Well said. And if everyone KNEW about Hume’s affair with MeAgain, they’d have been skewered on SNL like BoR was, and they might have wanted the distraction gone. It is a hostile work environment when the boss is sleeping with one of you. You are right.