Times Suspends TV Writer After View Appearance

We assume the Times knew about Ogunnaike’s VH1 appearances

While New York Times‘ television and entertainment writer Lola Ogunnaike was “remarkably poised and telegenic” in her Oct. 16 appearance on The View, her bosses were decidedly less effusive, suspending her for not giving them advance warning of her stint as “special guest co-host,” Jossip reports. Coupled with her recent spate of ABC coverage for the paper (The View‘s parent network), present and former colleagues are scratching