From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. This week, we focus on bad behavior of all kinds and the reactions to it.

Here at New York Public Radio, both the staff and the public have been roiled by allegations

and the management's response within our own walls.

Today, two high-profile hosts were placed on indefinite leave after accusations of inappropriate conduct,

Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz.

As of Friday, that's pretty much all we know.

These two suspensions came on the coattails of a larger story

concerning John Hockenberry,

longtime host of the takeaway who left the station

after his contract expired in August.

Over the weekend, New York Magazine's website,

The Cut, ran a first-person piece by a former takeaway guest

who said she was harassed by John.

That piece, written by journalist Suki Kim,

featured allegations ranging over nearly a decade from several former producers,

interns, freelancers, and co-hosts who'd worked at the takeaway.

One thing that's come up again and again, amid the charges of unwelcome

touching, sexual and racial harassment, and crass language was bullying. He would bang on tables,

he would yell, and then we'd go into the show, and while we were on the air, he would talk over me,

he would interrupt me, he would say dismissive things.

That's Celeste Headley, one of three women of color who were co-hosts on the takeaway,

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