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Dan Taylor Exits WCBS-FM

TheBigA said:
If so, why didn't he sue for defamation? The original charge was made several years ago. Lots of time to sue.
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Counter Argument.

Why didn't CBS drop him immediately, like so many others in the 'me too' era accused of something awful?

they didn't even suspend him temporarily. The original story came, went, and quietly went away.


Not everyone is the suing type, either. some just want to stay out of the spot light and concentrate on the work.
 
When CBS-FM signed back on after the JACK detour, they had (Dan) Taylor in the morning and (Bob) Shannon in the afternoon. Now it's (Scott) Shannon in the morning and (Race) Taylor in the afternoon.
 
Shredder said:
Why didn't CBS drop him immediately, like so many others in the 'me too' era accused of something awful?
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The first route for handling harassment is to go to management. That's what happened. They dealt with it internally. This is not sexual harassment. This is legal harassment, where someone was harassed due to sexual orientation. That's not the same thing. That could have been pursued legally outside of the company, and it wasn't. Why? I don't know, but to call it "fake news" is wrong. It apparently happened and was dealt with. I don't know if it played a part in the company now letting him go, since it comes at a time when the company is dropping a lot of senior talent around the country. But it is relevant to the story. He might be a contract employee, and his contract was simply not renewed.
 
I do get them all confused. they tend to blend together these days in the media :).


I could very well be wrong about dan taylor, but something about this just feels odd. we've seen fake allegations before...chris hardwick being one of them.(much as I hate to defend chris hardwick).

These days, companies take allegations of racial tension just as seriously as sexual misconduct... just found it odd that if there where anything too these rumors, he should have been fired immediately...or at least given some 'time off' during the investigation period. the charges are, what, a year old now? and have all but vanished from sight since that first few weeks of being published.
 
Shredder said:
Isn't the NYPost a SJW type publication, like the NYTimes?

would not surprise me if they posted fake news.
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Side note. "Fake news" was the term originally used to describe what was being spread on Facebook and social media sites by Russian influencers during the 2016 election campaign. The term was quickly co-opted by Trump to falsely serve as his defense against every news article critical of him, a tactic he has continued to use ever since.

So now the term "fake news" has become synonymous with Trump lying about any media coverage he doesn't like. Its value as a credible description of anything has been destroyed so I'd suggest avoid using it in your writing and conversation as it invalidates whatever point you're trying to make.
 
Considering how often the media alters the truth to fit their narrative, the term fake news fits. whether it's about trump or not.

anyway, getting off topic.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
So now the term "fake news" has become synonymous with Trump lying about any media coverage he doesn't like. Its value as a credible description of anything has been destroyed so I'd suggest avoid using it in your writing and conversation as it invalidates whatever point you're trying to make.
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To the contrary, the "Fake News" term now seems to be used for any irresponsible or poor journalistic behaviour.

On Saturday, the earthquake authorities at the USGS had to make a statement about "fake news" in the coverage of the recent Searles Valley / Ridgecrest shakers. They told journalists and the news media that they had to stop making up click bait stories about these quakes being related to the coming "big one" and even that California was becoming a subduction zone. All were described as fake science used just to create headlines.

The indictment of all the news media in this case was very broad. False and misleading comments were made into real news stories but they lacked any factual basis. The implication here is that professional journalists have become no different from the writers at the Enquirer and that they make up stories to get the attention of readers.

"Fake News" is now, as the earthquake coverage showed, prevalent in all media. And it is not just the domain of the Trump administration.

I took my first journalism course in 1962 at Michigan State University, and what I saw in the last week violates everything I was taught.
 
Shredder said:
Considering how often the media alters the truth to fit their narrative, the term fake news fits. whether it's about trump or not.

anyway, getting off topic.
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The media, particularly the electronic media, and its performance is certainly within the scope of this forum, although not of this thread.

If this subject generates additional comments, we can move it to the National forum as a separate "Fake News" thread.
 
DavidEduardo said:


To the contrary, the "Fake News" term now seems to be used for any irresponsible or poor journalistic behaviour.

On Saturday, the earthquake authorities at the USGS had to make a statement about "fake news" in the coverage of the recent Searles Valley / Ridgecrest shakers. They told journalists and the news media that they had to stop making up click bait stories about these quakes being related to the coming "big one" and even that California was becoming a subduction zone. All were described as fake science used just to create headlines.

The indictment of all the news media in this case was very broad. False and misleading comments were made into real news stories but they lacked any factual basis. The implication here is that professional journalists have become no different from the writers at the Enquirer and that they make up stories to get the attention of readers.

"Fake News" is now, as the earthquake coverage showed, prevalent in all media. And it is not just the domain of the Trump administration.

I took my first journalism course in 1962 at Michigan State University, and what I saw in the last week violates everything I was taught.
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I remember on the Earthquake thread Local Los Angeles TV Stations had to remind people that most of California is in a thrust fault or Strike Slip fault zone when I was watching CBSN's simulcast of KCBS2/KCAL9 News coverage of the quake and KABC7 coverage of the quake.

Also I remember seeing rumors of the Ridgecrest fault somehow causing a volcano in Yellowstone which sounded fishy given that California and Yellowstone has to be a thousand miles away at least.
 
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Also in the NY Post Article it showed that a WFAN staff member under CBS Radio's management was accused of sex harassment allegations prior to Entercom taking over the former CBS radio affiliates.

In the case of Dan Taylor it's racial misconduct because he had done an anti Jew rant.
 
DavidEduardo said:

To the contrary, the "Fake News" term now seems to be used for any irresponsible or poor journalistic behaviour.
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The behavior may be prevalent, but use of that term to describe it seems to be favored mostly by conservative media outlets that have no problem reinforcing Trump's misuse if it. I don't see the term used very much by mainstream news organizations any more, probably because it evokes negative and dismissive reactions from an audience tired of hearing it being abused. This is a phrase that now goes in one ear and out the other. I suspect the editorial policies at straight news outlets instruct the use of alternate descriptions like "disinformation" or "misleading", or they describe "fact checking" false stories instead.

DavidEduardo said:

On Saturday, the earthquake authorities at the USGS had to make a statement about "fake news" in the coverage of the recent Searles Valley / Ridgecrest shakers.
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Well the USGS is not a news organization. The term "fake news" gets repeated over and over by Trump and certain media outlets these days, and people, including spokespeople for non-news organizations, inevitably takes cues from language they hear every day. The USGS spokesperson wanted to publicize a problem with media coverage, but abuse of the phrase has rendered it ineffective as a way to describe real disinformation.

The sad truth is that the reporting Trump calls "fake news" is usually factual, so by that standard plenty of people take the phrase "fake news" to mean "real news that Trump hopes to discredit", and the effectiveness of the term has been destroyed.

DavidEduardo said:
I took my first journalism course in 1962 at Michigan State University
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I'm pretty sure modern day journalism courses must discourage both the practice of spreading disinformation, and the use of the phrase "fake news" to describe it.

Anyway, the irony is that the NY Post is a Rupert Murdoch tabloid so Shredder's suggestion that the Dan Taylor reporting was "fake news" was reasonable, but my original reply was that his use of that term to describe it undermined the point he wanted to make.
 
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Shredder said:
Counter Argument.

Why didn't CBS drop him immediately, like so many others in the 'me too' era accused of something awful?

they didn't even suspend him temporarily. The original story came, went, and quietly went away.


Not everyone is the suing type, either. some just want to stay out of the spot light and concentrate on the work.
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Yeah thats stupid probably because he was on radio and not as high profile. They sure as hell dropped charlie rose as soon as the first allegation came in without even doing an investigation which is stupid on cbs part i think.
 
kidrauhl said:
Yeah thats stupid probably because he was on radio and not as high profile. They sure as hell dropped charlie rose as soon as the first allegation came in without even doing an investigation which is stupid on cbs part i think.
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CBS has a real problem with this type of thing lately.
 
kidrauhl said:
Yeah thats stupid probably because he was on radio and not as high profile. They sure as hell dropped charlie rose as soon as the first allegation came in without even doing an investigation which is stupid on cbs part i think.
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So what's happening with Rose and his accusers? The latest info in his Wikipedia entry dates back nearly a full year -- August 2018 -- and says he filed a motion to dismiss, alleging that the women were opportunists capitalizing on the #MeToo movement. I assume something has happened since then; judges are unlikely to sit on motions to dismiss for 11 months.
 
CTListener said:
So what's happening with Rose and his accusers? The latest info in his Wikipedia entry dates back nearly a full year -- August 2018 -- and says he filed a motion to dismiss, alleging that the women were opportunists capitalizing on the #MeToo movement. I assume something has happened since then; judges are unlikely to sit on motions to dismiss for 11 months.
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You know why because no judge wants to be assosiated with dismissing a me too case. They wont get re elected.
 
Anyone else find it odd that the Post keeps saying that CBS Radio is being investigated? How can you investigate a company that doesn’t exist? Not trying to continue the “fake news” narrative but I find this to be odd.

Other than the allegations, I think the most reasonable assumption is that Dan was under a contract that wasn’t ultimately renewed which led to his abrupt departure and not because of an investigation. This would explain how the announcement of Race coming hours after the initial announcement of Dan’s departure.
 
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