“They just assumed he had done something terrible, but never told us what the terrible thing was,” Gladwell, a New Yorker writer himself, told the newspaper.A California Bible study group witnessed an unholy intrusion into their May 6 virtual meeting when an unwelcome guest Zoom-bombed them with startling video that included child pornography and defecation. Still, Gessen and other top media figures - including Gladwell - whined that Toobin’s public flogging was unfair.

Malcolm Gladwell Bloombergĭespite his supposed downfall, Toobin is holding on to his post as senior legal analyst at CNN, where he’s on leave, and has several Hollywood projects in development, the Times reported. The star writer was suspended and later fired from The New Yorker, where he’d worked for nearly three decades. The incident was “traumatic” at the time, Gessen said - and led to Toobin getting ripped on social media, “The Tonight Show” and even spawned the hashtag #MeToobin after Vice broke the story. “I was really, truly shocked.”ĭuring the virtual gathering - attended by other New Yorker notables and WNYC public radio staffers - Toobin, 60, “was seen lowering and raising his computer camera, exposing and touching his penis, and motioning an air kiss to someone other than his colleagues,” the Times reported.

“It wasn’t a full-out sexual act, but it was much more than a second,” Gessen said. 15 video call that led to Toobin’s fall from grace. New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen described in a New York Times article the now-infamous Oct. More details emerged Tuesday in Jeffrey Toobin’s caught-on-Zoom masturbation saga - as Malcolm Gladwell and others rushed to the disgraced journalist’s defense. Scandal-scarred Jeffrey Toobin leaving CNN after two decadesĬhris Cuomo could be back on CNN ‘in January’: Brian StelterĬNN’s Jeffrey Toobin ripped over column arguing against prosecuting Trump

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