6.12.2006
don't mess with tigers, and other important information
From this week's New York magazine piece about (supposedly) surprisingly ambitious Princeton alum Charlie Gibson:
When [ABC News president David] Westin gave her the news [that she was losing her new anchor job because she was pregnant], [Elizabeth] Vargas was taken by complete surprise, say people close to her. Having been assured by Westin that she would retain her job when she returned, they say, she felt betrayed.
Westin has a different memory of Vargas’s reaction. “Surprised?” he says. “No, I’m not sure it is right. She had raised with me her concerns about her health and family. We made a mutual decision. I don’t think so, but you need to ask her.”
Yeah, 'cause why should she be surprised? You mean getting pregnant doesn't inoculate you from losing your job? You know, because of, like, the law?
Not in the media world, it seems. (And no, we never got that bugaboo....)
When [ABC News president David] Westin gave her the news [that she was losing her new anchor job because she was pregnant], [Elizabeth] Vargas was taken by complete surprise, say people close to her. Having been assured by Westin that she would retain her job when she returned, they say, she felt betrayed.
Westin has a different memory of Vargas’s reaction. “Surprised?” he says. “No, I’m not sure it is right. She had raised with me her concerns about her health and family. We made a mutual decision. I don’t think so, but you need to ask her.”
Yeah, 'cause why should she be surprised? You mean getting pregnant doesn't inoculate you from losing your job? You know, because of, like, the law?
Not in the media world, it seems. (And no, we never got that bugaboo....)
