The New York Times offered this: "During a pause in the call for breakout discussions, Mr. Then Vice updates its story: During an election simulation exercise featuring an all-star cast of his fellow journalists, Vice reports that Toobin was seen on camera masturbating. Speculation on the nature of the exposure abounded. "I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers," Toobin told Motherboard. ![]() Toobin confirmed that an incident had happened, telling Vice that he "made an embarrassingly stupid mistake," believing he was off-camera and muted, neither visible nor audible to his colleagues. My god.Ī quick recap: Vice's Motherboard reported that author, New Yorker staff writer and CNN contributor Jeffrey Toobin had been suspended by the New Yorker following an incident in which he exposed himself during a workplace video call. ![]() Then you wake up to see "#MeToobin" trending. A Zoom call! You go to bed thinking the trending topic "Zoom Dick" will have a short shelf life after the fremdschämen howls are expelled from our collective system. ![]() And yet on an otherwise unremarkable Monday you find yourself wandering into a discourse about exactly how much grace to extend a venerable member of that venerable publication's staff who has been reportedly, allegedly, according to people familiar with the event, observed - in a story Vice broke, to breathless speculation about the questions readers both did and decidedly did not want answered - abusing himself, in the Merriam-Webster "old-fashioned" definition sense, during a work Zoom call. You try to live a life of culture and refinement, as my friend Greg likes to say you even re-up your lapsed subscription to The New Yorker every time the discount rolls back around and have the tote bag collection to show for it.
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