Paul Bliss Case Summary

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Article 1 The article “CTV News anchor Paul Bliss suspended following sexual misconduct allegations” discusses, how “an award-winning CTV reporter and anchor, has been suspended pending an investigation into allegations made Friday by a former network employee of sexual misconduct more than a decade ago.” (Isai, 2018) The article also discusses how Bridget Brown decided to publish the news and why she finally decided to come out it after 12 years of being silent about it. Similarities There are two similarities between this article by Thestar and case study 2. The first similarity is both Paul Bliss and Dr. Smitherson are being suspended indefinitely until their investigations have been completed. The second similarity is they were both able to go under the radar of the allegations made against them quite a long time. Paul Bliss was able to keep his sexual misconduct charges quiet for almost 12 years, while Dr. Smitherson has known about his HIV for an extended period as he has been on regular medication and attends regular medical visits. Differences …show more content…

The first difference is Paul Bliss’s suspension was made public due to the nature of his job and that Bridget Brown came out about what happened on a blog post (social media). While Dr. Smitherson’s suspension was kept quiet and it stayed internal to the people working in the hospital because if word got out about Dr. Smitherson it could affect the hospital. The second difference is that in the article it does not say if CTV is implementing a solution in their work environment. Whereas in the case study the board of directors at the hospital wants to implement that everyone who works in the hospital has to take an HIV test immediately and all new applicants must undergo that

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