The big outlier from this consensus is the national news media, which reacted with near unanimous scorn in 2017 to news reports that Mike Pence had a rule against one-on-one dinners or drinks with other women.Here are some of the media freakouts from back then, as collected by conservative Mollie Hemingway:
What has happened since then? We’ve had at least three media scandals resulting in resignations involving sexual affairs between prominent colleagues at major news outlets. Gollust got divorced in 2017, and Zucker got divorced the next year. There are disputes about when the sexual relationship between the two began, but in any event, the relationship was considered inappropriate enough that both Zucker and Gollust resigned for violating CNN standards.
In late 2022, it was Good Morning America’s turn in the colleague-affair-dismissal spotlight. Co-anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, both married at the time, traveled together to England to cover Queen Elizabeth’s jubilee, and that reportedly is when their sexual affair began. Their relationship also included “flirty post-filming sessions at a New York City bar,” according to the Daily Mail article that exposed their cheating.