

Given the various incidents of ‘backstage’ moments leaking into live conference mosaics it’s hard to label Mr. “I don’t believe a Zoom call is over until I hit LEAVE, quit my browser, shut down, close the laptop lid, stick my computer in a drawer and leave the room,” tweeted noted American art critic, Jerry Saltz. This being Brazil, a country more mature than others in these matters, the council chair continued the meeting while technicians were asked to cut off the feed from the erring member’s video and audio. The gent forgot (or failed) to turn off his camera and the other participants could see the frenetic activity in the far background of the frame. This incident follows an earlier one in which, during a Zoom city council meeting in Rio de Janeiro, one of the participants was overcome with the need to enjoy carnal exchange with his partner.

Not that one wants to imagine what one might call a Zoom-onanist in overly terrific detail.

New Yorker for 25 years and attached to CNN as a legal analyst, and one can’t help feeling that if this can happen to someone like him it could perhaps happen, if not to anyone, then certainly to a lot more people than one imagines. Toobin is a serious man, a staffer of the prestigious The New Yorker magazine because he was seen masturbating on a Zoom work call. One receives with no little dismay the news that an American gentleman by the name of Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended by
