New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor made it sound like the "#MeToo" phenomenon she spurred on was dead.It began with Hollywood power broker Harvey Weinstein and collapsed when it came to Democrat candidates like Graham Platner, in the crucial Maine Senate race against Republican Sen.
Susan Collins.Those allegations led to Platner suspending his campaign July 8.Kantor's stories on Weinstein became a feminist movie titled "She Said," and she was played as a heroine by actress Zoe Kazan.
But she wasn’t a feminist when it came to Platner.On CNN’s afternoon show "The Arena" on June 10, Kantor dismissed the allegations made in a June 4 article in her own newspaper by two other female reporters.
They found ex-girlfriends identifying "unsettling behavior," featuring liberal Jenna Racicot and conservative Lyndsay Fifield."The accusations against Graham Platner are not classic #MeToo accusations," Kantor claimed."They're not about a boss and a young female employee being subjected to sexual advances.
They were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships." They were "not classic abuse allegations."PLATNER RIPPED CHEATERS AS ‘GARBAGE’ IN UNEARTHED POSTS BEFORE HIS OWN EARLY-MARRIAGE SEXTING SCANDALHow does that make them less newsworthy? On July 6, pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, who pushed back against Kantor’s dismissive tone in that segment, tweeted, "I try to stay pretty even-keeled on air, but was pretty aghast at the way the allegations against Graham Platner were being dismissed."Democratic U.S.Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at his primary election event on June 9, 2026, in Blue Hill, Maine.
(CJ Gunther/Getty Images)Fifield, the figure at the center of the Times story, reacted over the Kantor video on X by noting she forgave Platner, "but when I realized I was not the only woman he had done this to, that he has a lifelong pattern of deep contempt for women, I realized he had suckered me once again.And instead of support for coming for...