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Re:Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee by freyr on Monday February 20, 2017 @09:54PM (#13692878)
Some journalists have written trashy gossip articles, and I wouldn't defend that.

But if that's his mindset, "Other people have done bad things, so why shouldn't I?", that's not great. That leads to a culture of decaying ethics, lowest-common-denominator behavioral norms, backstabbing and retribution, etc. And the stories we've heard about life at Uber become much more plausible.

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Re:Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee by yummyfajitas on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:43AM (#13695308)
If you have a principled objection to all such journalism, then it's fair to apply that same objection to Gawker, Pando and Uber alike. I don't agree with your premise, but you at least seem to be consistent.

But I don't think that Ben Smith (editor at Gawker, and the person Emil Michael was arguing with) could make the same objection without being a transparent hypocrite.

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