Charges of 'Frat House' Behavior Shadow LA Times Publisher

While the Los Angeles Times has given prominent coverage to recent claims of sexual harassment, it has ignored the conduct of its own CEO and publisher Ross Levinsohn (above), who was a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits before joining the newspaper. By his own sworn testimony, Levinsohn admitted to rating the relative "hotness" of his female colleagues in office banter. In addition, a Hollywood Reporter executive said Levinsohn told him he was leaving the publication's lunch honoring fashion stylists because he didn't want to be surrounded by gays — using a vulgar epithet for them, according to the executive.