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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing that gets me in all of this is how irresponsible the NYT author (Kolker) was in the retelling. What if this entire issue had been handled in arbitration (which Larsen refused, Dorland was okay with), meaning there would be no public documents? We would just have had the NYT timeline and framing, not the original source documents, which tell a wildly different story than what the NYT published.

It is bothering me how divergent the actual evidence is from the NYT narrative. In the NYT, Dawn sounds crazy, clinging, annoying, etc. Problematic in many ways. But when you read the actual evidence -- produced by Larsen herself in litigation! -- suddenly that largely falls away. You end up with a vulnerable woman who painfully starts to piece together, over years of time, how she's been maltreated and gaslit, someone who doesn't look anything like what Kolker portrayed.

If the hard evidence hadn't been there for us to assess on our own, how destroyed would Dorland have been by the NYT article? How complicit is the NYT in this entire affair? [/quote]
Catching up on the day’s posts on this. Has this been mentioned? Kolkers piece was deliberately anti dawn. The anti-chronology, and the details left out and those included. For one example the harsssment claim she had - I read someone’s “here is what really happened” version with receipts and I don’t remember the details but even that was just totally miscast. I think his piece was deceptive snd manipulative. So while we are canceling I would nominate him.  [/quote]

I saw on Twitter (no idea if it's true) that Kolker wrote that Dorland filed a harassment complaint but then didn't attend meetings, making her sound like a flake. But the reality was that she had been advised not to attend or respond because her claim was making it through the arbitration process. So he implied she was a flake (so sexist, if true), but she wasn't.

Honestly this piece (and specifically how much Kolker left off) has really made me question my NYT subscription for the first time. What am I paying for, if not accuracy? How can the NYT be endorsing this?[/quote]

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