Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee
As I commented last night[1], the New York Times has cast Fowler&#x27;s experience as a he-said-she-said story. Unfortunately I was not pessimistic enough:<p>1. The New York Times spiked the most damning part of Fowler&#x27;s story: that HR was actively involved in supporting the behavior.<p>2. It down plays Fowler&#x27;s specific experience as typical for the industry and marginalizes it by bringing Pao&#x27;s story into Fowler&#x27;s narrative. Pao&#x27;s experience was radically different, if for no other reason than Fowler is a rank and file employee of the most typical kind, an engineer. Pao is an executive. It also brought all the irrlevant ambiguities surrounding Pao&#x27;s executive actions at Reddit into the mix.<p>3. It repeats nearly all of Uber&#x27;s public response verbatim rather than linking to it as it does with Fowler&#x27;s article.<p>Fowler&#x27;s story gets one paragraph (or two if the one sentence paragraph about going to work for Stripe counts). The same amount is devoted to Pao. Uber&#x27;s PR gets the bulk of the article with no critical analysis.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13683159" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13683159</a>