OK, let's take a step back and appreciate what happened today, and let's look at the incredibly ballsy women of @thecurrent (and a few male allies) who risked their jobs today to tweet their support for women who are victims and the reporter who wanted to tell their story.
That just does not f'ing happen in this business. Ever. The MPR management was looking at a staff revolt today and it had no choice in the face of that courage.
And this started with @SlingshotAnnie 's indictment this summer of "news ethics" (spit) in its current form which enables the victimization of women, which -- and god only knows why this is -- nobody jumped at as the perfect talk show topic.
And then we have @MarianneSCombs, for example, one of the most level-headed members of MPR News who committed career suicide. And that STILL wasn't enough to get the men in MPR management to pay attention. And then those wonderful hosts at @thecurrent rolled the dice.
As I spent way too much time saying yesterday, there's a systemic problem at MPR. Today got their attention but, honestly, after all of the #MeToo coverage, to have a public radio NEWS operation be so clumsy in handling this, well, I'm not hopeful.
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