Tom Ashbrook, the longtime host of NPR’s syndicated radio show On Point, has been fired by Boston station WBUR-FM. An internal review by Boston University, the station’s operator, confirmed claims made late last year that he had created an abusive work environment.
Ashbrook, who has hosted the daily two-hour morning news and analysis program for 16 years, had been on leave since the allegations emerged in December.
The university said it had conducted two separate reviews after allegations were made by 11 former staffers claiming Ashbrook “created a work environment that included verbal assaults, intimidating actions, consistent bullying, and unwanted touching.” A second probe, conducted by a law firm, determined that the alleged unwelcome conduct was not sexual in nature, and was not sexual harassment under BU’s Title IX polices.
He was fired but not for sexual allegation. Time to skip sexual harassment, the Media is obsessed with, into the many other violations.
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