![]() In his resignation published online, Mills admitted to bad behavior while working as a producer for the WNYC show “Radiolab” - including giving one colleague an unwanted backrub and pouring a drink on a coworker’s head at a party seven years ago - but said he was stepping down over an “online campaign” that had painted him as a “predator.” Meanwhile, Mills had faced his own brewing storm when old allegations that he harassed female coworkers at a former job resurfaced. “We are committed to building a news report and company that reflect our core values of integrity and respect, and will work with urgency to create clearer guidelines and enforcement about conduct in the workplace, including red-line issues on racist language.” In a statement to staffers about McNeil, top Times editors Dean Banquet and Joe Kahn said, “We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” The fact that I even thought I could defend it itself showed extraordinarily bad judgement. Originally, I thought the context in which I used this ugly word could be defended. In asking the question, I used the slur itself. “To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. McNeil, who spearheaded the paper’s coverage of COVID-19, admitted in a statement that he used a “racial slur” - though said it was in the context of quoting a student who had asked “whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used” the term. McNeil’s resignation came after more than 150 Times staffers reportedly sent a letter to the Grey Lady’s honchos this week demanding he be “disciplined” after it emerged that he said the N-word on a Times-sponsored student trip to Peru in 2019. Two New York Times journalists resigned Friday amid public controversies over their past behavior - with science reporter Donald McNeil and Andy Mills, a producer on the botched “Caliphate” podcast, each stepping down. Man scales New York Times building, holds knife up to throat ![]() The week in whoppers: Cali’s car lunacy, the NYT’s pro-Biden spin and more The week in whoppers: Biden’s MAGA double-talk, Hillary’s email revisionism and more Over 1,300 New York Times employees pledge not to return to office
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