Did you know that the latest in a series of influential men hit by sexual misconduct list just keeps growing?

Did you know that The New York Times has suspended White House correspondent Glenn Thrush while it investigates several allegations of sexual misconduct?

Did you know that it had been a remarkable year for Glenn Thrush. One of the breakout reporters chronicling the 2016 election for Politico, he ascended last December to the White House beat for the New York Times and later, an MSNBC contract?

 

Did you know that Thrush vivid accounts of West Wing intrigue earned him and his frequent co-writer Maggie Haberman a plum book deal?

 

Did you know that Thrush caught in an allegations of sexual misconduct which caused him
to be suspended from his job at the Times on Monday?

 

Did you know that the latest in a series of influential men hit by sexual misconduct list just keeps growing?

Did you know that the news site Vox published a story accusing Thrush, 50, of having a “history of bad judgment around young women journalists?”

 

Did you know that in the article, three women said Thrush had made unwanted contact or advances toward them. One of them was the story’s author, Laura McGann, who wrote that Thrush, after a night of drinking with colleagues, put his hand on her thigh and tried kissing her against her wishes?

 

Did you know that McGann wrote that she had interviewed 40 people “in and around media who know Thrush,” and painted a portrait of a powerful media figure who often crossed the line with female reporters in their early 20s?

Did you know that Eileen Murphy, the senior vice president of communications for the New York Times,”  Times, wrote in a statement confirming that Thrush had been suspended pending an investigation. She added that he has entered treatment for substance abuse?

Did you know that Thrush first jumped onto the national scene as a reporter for Newsday, covering Hillary Clinton’s first presidential candidacy?

 

Did you know that Thrush then spent eight years at Politico, becoming one of the paper’s most senior and versatile journalists, at times working as a long-form magazine writer, a scoop generator and a podcast host?

Did you know that MSNBC said that it was waiting for the “outcome of the Times investigation,” and officials at Random House, which is publishing the Thrush-Haberman book, said that they were “looking at it closely and seriously?”

Did you know that it has been less than two months since Thrush’s own paper published its explosive report on Weinstein, of course since then, the Times website has kept a rolling list of the growing number of men accused of sexual misconduct and now Thrush’s name was atop the list?

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