Yep, worry about the leaks, not about how the board and the rest of management somehow missed such blatant misbehavior and malfeasance.
Watch how any leaker will be punished much more than Moonves. It’s baked into these corporate cakes. Weird.
The Moonves sexual harrassment probe may not be good for CBS, but it’s damn good for America.
when TPM publishes an article like this, it should have honest news about what happened …not just a CBS press release,try writing,…CBS continues to cover-up sexual assaults by its’ executives
I continue to argue that it is absolutely relevant—tragically relevant—that among the men in journalism who shaped the election narrative in 2016 that reduced Hillary Clinton to emails, a pantsuit, and a cough, were these powerful woman-haters in the news biz: Moonves, Mark Halperin, Matt Lauer (whose conduct of that infamous NBC foreign policy “debate” between Mad Donald and Secretary Clinton made sense, once you understood that Lauer’s whole career was about contempt for women and ugly little power plays to put them in their place), Charlie Rose, Roger Ailes, the whole ugly boiling of them.
These powerful men whose attitudes toward women were deeply neurotic and conditioned by sexual sickness and rage were the ones who dominated and shaped the national discourse during the first major, serious, potentially successful campaign by a woman candidate for the presidency. These men who hate women were the ones who guided news consumers to certain conclusions.
To those who note, angrily, that I am being totally unfair, that Secretary Clinton was a deeply flawed candidate with many deficiencies, that you cannot blame the men of the press for her awful image, and that her defeat was her own damn fault, I offer defense exhibits A through Z: Donald John Trump.
His behavior goes way beyond “sexual harassment.” Among the things Moonves did was expose himself to women in his office, jerk off in front of them, then deny it, and ask others to cover for him. There was also a CBS employee on call to give him blow jobs. A total of 12 women told the New Yorker about his behavior which led to his downfall.
He obstructed an investigation into his behavior and he stands to lose his $120,000,000. golden parachute because of it. He’ll say anything and do anything and it’ll all be bullshit.
How do you feel about the women he victimized. Was it good for them as Americans?
I agree with you. But this doesn’t explain the horrendous way that Margaret Carlson, et alia, wrote about Al Gore in demeaning, petulant ways when GWBush was running to make Dick Cheney President. Please offer a rationale for When Media Women Go Bad.