I just walk on and forget his existence.” Rosenthal dismissed the book in an interview with the Jerusalem Post : “I’m a city boy and I know enough that when I walk along and I see a dog shitting in the street, not to stop and examine his dung. Rosenthal as self-promoting, petty and arbitrary, noting that his own goal as executive editor was to be “Not-Abe.” For his own part, Mr. In his 1999 book, The Times of My Life and My Life at the Times, Mr. For those of you just tuning into the Abe-and-Max show, they were bitter rivals throughout their 40-plus-year careers at The Times. Frankel did the scandal-mongering themselves just fine. Keane again said: “This is an internal issue that I’m really not at liberty to discuss.” Casey was told there had been a camera in her office, Ms. had since told her that “there was never a camera in her office.” Pressed about why Ms. Keane said the security department at Time Inc. Casey’s office, she said, “I can tell you that there are security cameras throughout the building-there always have been-but I can’t really get into specifics with you, on the advice of our security department.” When asked to confirm that there was a security camera specifically in Ms. “Unfortunately, there’s been theft throughout the building, so the reason for the cameras is to prevent and to end the theft.” 7, SI Women ‘s director of public relations, Alison Keane, said it was common for security cameras to be placed throughout the Sports Illustrated offices, located in an annex office building on West 50th Street separate from the main Time-Life Building. Despite complaints, the box remained in Ms. Finally, as a SI Women staffer was fiddling with the box one day, trying to figure out just exactly what it was, a video tape ejected, labeled with that day’s date. No one on staff knew exactly what the device was, and on several occasions, sources said, staff members would unplug the wires connected to it, only to find it hooked up and turned on again the next day. Lee asked for the device to be removed from her office, staff members said. Concerned that the apparatus was some sort of monitoring device-especially given its potentially revealing vantage point under her desk-Ms. Senior associate editor Yishane Lee, who started at the magazine in August, had found a strange electronic box hooked up to wires and a small video monitor under her desk. Staff members had earlier shared their concerns about another device found in the office of another Sports Illustrated Women editor. She had told people she suspected there was a camera in it-so she took the precaution of turning it towards a tacky painting of happy and sad clowns that someone on her staff had found in the trash. Casey had long been wondering about the VCR in her office, which she said never worked. Casey reportedly wants to know, among other things, who has copies of the tapes.Īccording to the sources, Ms. They said some of her staffers, who are mostly women, sometimes used her office to change clothes. Casey’s office is the only one in the editorial offices that offered privacy because it had frosted glass rather than the clear glass in other offices. The videotape is not believed to be too racy, but Ms. Casey he passed by an office where some men were viewing a videotape of her in her office. Boas referred calls to the Sports Illustrated public-relations staff.īut the sources said Mr. Casey had been told by Michael Boas, an employee on the business side of Sports Illustrated, that a hidden camera had been in her office since she moved to Sports Illustrated Women in June. Casey’s office coincidentally, at about the same time, the recording device in the magazine’s offices disappeared. But a few days later, the spokesperson denied there had ever been a camera in Ms. They said she only backed off briefly so she could close the next edition of her magazine.Ī spokesperson for the magazine publisher refused to discuss the matter, citing a policy against discussing “internal workings of the magazine,” but acknowledging that hidden security cameras are being used in the building. But according to sources at the magazine, she is furious and pressing Time Inc. According to the sources, the colleague told her he had seen some of the videotape shot of her. Casey was told by a colleague at Sports Illustrated that a security camera hidden without her knowledge had been taping her office around the clock for the three months she had been on the job, sources said.
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