“The situation offers a glimpse at an unanticipated intersection of a high-profile #MeToo case and the unsentimental business of media. In many typical book deals, Thrush would have had a clear legal claim to keep his advance, and Random House would have had a legal right to claw back Haberman’s after she decided not to do the book. But the outcome was that perhaps the most prominent woman journalist in the United States paid a literal price for a male colleague’s alleged transgressions.”
