“You have to go not one, not two, not 10, not 20, 22 paragraphs in before you get to the allegations,” Concha said on Fox News’s America Reports on Friday.Concha said it’s “journalistic malfeasance” to bury the lede of the article, and not show these serious allegations until later in the report.
The report, released Thursday, details disturbing accounts from several of Platner’s ex-girlfriends.
One of the women in the report, Lyndsey Fifield, recalled Platner’s unsettling behavior while they were dating, and said he was “cavalierly contemptuous of women’s emotions, of our ‘weakness.'”
Fifield fired back at the New York Times in an X post on Friday for downplaying the story.
She said New York Times journalists “twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.”
