The <i>Harper’s</i> Controversy: The Whisper Network Meets the Megaphone
“I am looking forward to talking about what is actually in the piece when it actually comes out. I am not ‘outing’ anyone. I have to say it’s a little disturbing that anyone besides Trump views Twitter as a reliable news source.”
That’s the writer Katie Roiphe, the author of an upcoming story in magazine, responding to the that has surrounded that story since Tuesday. The story seems to involve, in some capacity, the , a spreadsheet created as a private document—shared between women who work in media and meant to warn them about predatory men—but whose existence was made public, via a post on , in October. A spreadsheet that alternately empowered women, asked crucial questions about standards of proof when it comes to allegations of sexual misconduct, and led to multiple journalistic investigations into harassment and assault across the American media—and to some firings of
