Well, shoot.
In late December, Fox News announced that James Rosen would be leaving the network at the end of the year. Fox didn’t go into any detail, and the news fueled a lot of speculation. Now, it looks like we’ve got an answer at last:
https://twitter.com/SirajAHashmi/status/951193280561205248
More from NPR:
The network cited no reason for Rosen’s exit and did not announce it on the air. According to Rosen’s former colleagues, however, he had an established pattern of flirting aggressively with many peers and had made sexual advances toward three female Fox News journalists, including two reporters and a producer. And his departure followed increased scrutiny of his behavior at the network, according to colleagues.
This story is based on interviews with eight of Rosen’s former colleagues at the Fox News bureau in Washington, D.C., just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Rosen declined to comment to NPR after it set out in detail what it intended to report.
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The accusations against Rosen, who is married with young children, are more severe than that. He developed a reputation as a talented and ambitious journalist called “the professor” by former political anchor Brit Hume on the air for his interest in Watergate (Rosen wrote a book focusing on the life of former Attorney General John Mitchell that argued for a kinder re-assessment of his role in that Nixon-era scandal). Rosen has sent such messages, according to his former female co-workers. But in three instances he made overt physical and sexual overtures, according to the accounts of numerous former Fox News colleagues who heard about the incidents contemporaneously.
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Read the whole thing for more details.
Man, I did not see this one coming https://t.co/iiGIaRA6Hh
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) January 10, 2018
Just wow.
This is disheartening. I liked James Rosen so much and was sad about his departure.
— That's Lt. Col. Snark to you! (@JaneBond462) January 10, 2018
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