When the affair between GMA co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach was exposed, it was juicy social media fodder. But Holmes had several other affairs, and they were part of a pattern of power-imbalanced relationships at the network. angelinachapin reports
It never occurred to me that any of this was at all inappropriate. I really did think,In 2017, Ruth told HR that an editor who called her “babe” had put his hand on her bare thigh while they worked together in a dark, soundproof edit bay. She was in her late 20s and remembers a representative telling her that the company never took action because Ruth “didn’t seem that mad” . Though she recalls being upset, she says, “Everybody deals with this kind of stuff differently.
For her part, Alicia didn’t even think to tell HR when an older colleague hit on her in his office. “It never occurred to me that any of this was at all inappropriate,” she says. “I really did think,Sascha’s relationship with Holmes began to peter out after less than a year, once he left the overnight shift to focus onShe says he never gave her a heads up about the new job, which left her “heartbroken” and feeling like a “throwaway object.
Still, Sascha felt no animosity toward Holmes until his other affairs, including one with another junior staffer, made headlines. “I was just part of a pattern,” she says, adding that at the time “I didn’t even think about power dynamics. I thought I was special.” As a young woman trying to build her career as a producer, she might have been “blacklisted” within the industry or “gotten in huge trouble” had word spread about the affair. “Why was I taking that risk?” she says.
A current ABC staffer says the newsroom has become less scandalous since Godwin was hired as the network’s president in 2021. “Kim has gone out of her way to create a sort of zero-tolerance policy here,” says the source, who’s had a long career at the network. “There has been cultural change.” The Daily Beast reported thatwith how Godwin handled the incident, however, and say she is “losing the confidence of the newsroom.
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