The media should stop ignoring when sexual misconduct perpetrators are married

Published June 14, 2018 1:29pm ET



There’s a new detailed account of how New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush repeatedly would fondle or kiss journalistic colleagues after hours, or take home inebriated women. But you have to read about 3,000 words to learn one detail: He’s married.

Even then, that fact is mentioned only once, in passing, in a quote. And the lack of care for that fact is the norm. A separate Vanity Fair story on Thrush this week is 1,300 words and it never mentions his marital status.

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