Stop Yelling and Go to Human Resources
The NYT’s account has a post-surgery, pained, Bob Garfield having a disagreement with co-host and executive editor Brooke Gladstone, after which he was summarily fired.<p>My interpreation of bullying includes a number of factors, a key one of which is a power disparity between the bully and the bullied. By the Times’s telling, what actually occured was a disagreement between at the very least peers, if not of a less senior (Garfield) and more senior (Gladstone) team member. It sounds less as if Garfield was guilty of bullying and more that he was fired in retaliation for what might be uncharitably considered insubordination rather than a professional disagreement.<p>This bears poorly on WNYC, On the Media, and Gladstone.<p>And yes, given WNYC’s stated goal of becoming New York City’s news source “of record”, the Times itself has a horse in this race. Though its own position is and long has been as the national paper of record.