Comments on: Does Andrew Goldman, New York TImes Misogynist, Owe His Career to a Harvey Weinstein Headlock?

By: Edward Champion

Edward Champion — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:48:13 +0000

Patrick: It doesn’t discredit me at all. The fact of the matter is that, even after Boyle says he has to “clean up after my poor wife,” Goldman immediately assumes that Boyle’s wife isn’t “letting the dishes pile up in the sink.” Goldman’s immediate gender default to a woman cleaning in some form spells out his crass and misogynistic motivations, which have been expressed in numerous other Q&As. It assumes that Boyle’s wife isn’t doing other activities. If he had asked “What do you mean clean up after your wife?” he would have been on firm ground.

As it so happens, I also interviewed Mr. Boyle when he came through town. We even talked about his wife a bit. It never even occurred to me to consider her role in relation to cleaning.

http://www.edrants.com/t-c-boyle-the-bat-segundo-show/

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:37:41 +0000

The fact that you called the latest q and a with TC Boyle misogynistic completely discredits you. The “dishes pile up” question comes right after Boyle said he had to go home and clean up after his wife who had been home alone for two weeks. It had nothing to do with a woman’s role or any other nonsense you seem to be implying here. The question would work exactly the same no matter the gender of the subject. You are seriously grasping.

By: Andrew Goldman Suspended For Four Weeks Over Twitter Remarks - GalleyCat

Andrew Goldman Suspended For Four Weeks Over Twitter Remarks - GalleyCat — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:30:02 +0000

[…] You can read our complete story about the controversial Twitter exchange here. Goldman has since apologized to Weiner and his account has been removed from Twitter. Times public editor Margaret Sullivan wrote about Goldman’s Twitter comments last week, citing our Storify record and literary blogger Edward Champion‘s coverage of the incident. […]

By: Lina

Lina — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:42:57 +0000

There were frank, sensitive questions, not declarations or assertions of his own. In the Terry Gross interview, Andrew is not making his own presumption about her sexuality. He is referring to an anecdote that was published in the introduction of her own book, which was made even clearer when she makes a joke about how widespread this misperception is. The Whitney Cummings question is perhaps a little cheekier but still refers to something other people have said about her — “On those Comedy Central roasts, your fellow comedians liked to joke about how you slept your way to fame. How accurate is that criticism? Whether these topics have been raised by others, including the interviewees themselves, is irrelevant. What was misogynistic about the questions was that he chose to ask them rather than something else. He could have asked anything. These are interesting people. They have many things to discuss. He made the conscious decision, informed by his own misogyny, to ask these questions. That is problematic.

By: Why Margaret Sullivan is right to be wrong | Felix Salmon

Why Margaret Sullivan is right to be wrong | Felix Salmon — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:38:53 +0000

[…] result is that she’s turning into what you might call a media pundit with a bully pulpit. Ed Champion could never get a response from NYT Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren to his questions; Sullivan can. […]

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:29:36 +0000

You’re drawing some very long bows here. What do you personally have against the man?

By: Edward Champion

Edward Champion — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:35:04 +0000

FMJohnson: You are correct. There were a few stories The New York Press (and Elzweig) wrote about Solomon around the same time. I’ve fixed the link. Thank you.

By: FMJohnson

FMJohnson — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:34:39 +0000

In the sentence, “Solomon’s questionable journalistic practices were exposed in 2007 by the New York Press‘s Matt Elzweig,” I think you meant to link to this piece:
http://nypress.com/questions-for-the-questioner/

The current link is a sidebar to that piece, which really doesn’t give much insight into Solomon’s questionable practices.

By: A Twitter Outburst and Another Chance for Andrew Goldman | The Public Editor - NYTimes.com

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:25:56 +0000

[…] asked Hugo Lindgren, the editor of the Times Magazine, about the incident, sending him a blog post that raised questions about some of Mr. Goldman’s earlier questions to women he interviewed, […]