Newsbusters: AOL is lying about the Playboy Rape List firing.
Yes, a liberal blogger for AOL got fired, right after he published a swiftly-removed criticism of the Playboy piece.
Needless to say, AOL (in the form of their political site’s editor, Melinda Henneberger) is doing its level best to push back against even the suggestion that there was any causal relationship between Tommy Christopher’s Playboy criticism and his firing. First Ms. Henneberger claimed that Mr. Christopher was going to be let go anyway. Newsbusters quickly published an article that indicated that they had emails showing that Christopher was on good terms with AOL up to the very day of the firing. Newsbusters also addressed Henneberger’s claim to not have even seen the article in question with a screenshot of the record of her deleting it** (and here’s another one of an internal AOL email indicating that the whole subject should be dropped). Henneberger is now claiming that while she apparently did delete that article, after all, she didn’t actually read it; and that any internal/external emails out there that indicate that Christopher wasn’t getting fired until after this happened are not reflective of what was going on in real life; and how dare anyone criticize the motives of somebody who has worked for such bastions of journalistic integrity and couth as the New York Times, Newsweek, & Slate***. And oh, yes: she wants you to know that Playboy is disgusting. The exact quote is “Everything they do degrades women!”
Good to know, given that AOL/Time Warner has been doing business with the women-degraders for some time now.
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