This is not the kind of editor's note you want to see in a story about yourself: "This piece has been updated with more detail about the call and the headline has been updated to reflect that Toobin was masturbating." Grace Panetta, politics reporter at Business Insider, via Twitter: My interview from last week didn’t age well: #Toobin /iTanOjOtXoĩ. Simpson, in a video message posed to Twitter:ħ.Paula Reid, CBS News White House Correspondent and lawyer, via Twitter: Simpson, whose murder case was the subject of Toobin’s 1996 book, The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Masturbatory Exercise Taken a Bit Too Literally /ZLsbpxbCZXĦ.O.J. Technically a CNN commentator jerking off is the most accurate simulation of election night New Yorker sub-editors forced to correct every instance of it to "zoömdick". Here’s a sampling:ġ.Sasha Issenberg, journalist and author, via Twitter:Ģ.Kieran Healy, Professor of Sociology at Duke University, via Twitter: Right-wing pundits, left-wing pundits, and even a prominent no-longer-imprisoned former football player who was held liable for his wife’s killing, used the opportunity to goof on Toobin and his magazine. But when the writer at the center of an embarrassing incident like this just happens to work for the most distinguished magazine in the country, it gives the highbrow permission for lowbrow gags. Toobin played the courts.Ī spokesperson for CNN, where Toobin also works as an a legal analyst, said yesterday that, “Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted.”įor a writer at some other magazine, that might be the end of it. Vice later updated its original story to add that Toobin was “masturbating on a Zoom video chat between members of the New Yorker and WNYC radio last week.” The chat was apparently an “election simulation” in which different prominent New Yorker writers played various parties in a disputed election.
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