I’m glad he’s out but I’m not looking forward to all the false equivalency crowing we’re about to hear from the Roger Ailes apologists over at Fox News.
“my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years,” Zucker told employees in a memo. “I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years.”
That sounds pretty consensual. Unprofessional as hell for two people in the same workplace, but not inherently sleazy.
The woman he had the relationship with has also called it consensual:
Gollust, who joined CNN in 2013 and plans to stay at the network, released a statement the same day: “Jeff and I have been close friends and professional partners for over 20 years," she said. “Recently, our relationship changed during covid. I regret that we didn’t disclose it at the right time.”
Sounds like it might have been consensual, but the problem was that they’re suppose to disclose such a relationship, but they did not.