Nice work if you can get it.
CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves is negotiating a payout of $100 million as his price for leaving CBS after The New Yorker magazine has published a second expose of his sexual misconduct, assaults, and vengeful career-wrecking of women who spurn his crude advances. This time there are six more women describing forced fellatio, physical violence, and threats of retaliation for failure to satisfy The Great Man's sexual urges. [1]
This is the man who did so much to make Donald Trump president, boasting to an audience of rich creeps that "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." [2]
The CBS corporate board of directors has mooted the possibility of donating $20 million- one fifth of Moonves expected sack of loot- to the #MeToo anti-sexual harassment movement. They plan to hire an outside law firm to "investigate" the "allegations," and supposedly might pay Moonves nothing.
Corporate media has been reporting that even if Moonves gets no "severance" package, he has still extracted during his time at CBS one BILLION dollars! But the greed of such plutocrats is insatiable, so Moonves has been in a tug of war with the CBS board for weeks to try and extract every additional dollar he can.
Here's how dishonest CBS "News" is. In reporting the story as the first item on the 8 am (EST) national broadcast on September 10, their radio network omitted the fact that CBS is hiring the outside law firm to investigate not just Moonves, but the environment of sexual harassment at CBS and at CBS "News."
The board issued the standard boilerplate bullshit about how they don't tolerate a hostile work environment and value their female employees and blah blah blah- a pack of lies. They're pretending not to know the reality inside CBS.
Moonves, for his part, is showing his stripes as a conscienceless, amoral goon, denying the allegations. But it is too many people making too many detailed claims for Moonves to have any credibility. He has also been trying to parry the truth with the smarmy line that he maybe made some women uncomfortable and for that he has regrets.
Oh shove it, you predator.
Moonves penchant for meting out punishment to women wasn't limited to those who failed to satisfy him sexually. After Janet Jackson's breast was accidentally exposed for nine-sixteenths of a second during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, Moonves was inexplicably enraged and proceeded to wreck her career. He used his control over the music video channels MTV and VH1 to ban her videos, wrecking sales of her current album. Her career never recovered. Justin Timberlake, who had torn her outfit, was held blameless by Moonves. Jackson's apology didn't mollify the suddenly hyper-prudish and ultra-Puritanical sex offender Moonves. This in a society drenched in sexual imagery, in which a mountain of hardcore pornography is readily available to anyone with an Internet connection or cable TV subscription. Truly the man is pathological. [3]
During the current scandal du jour, "the" media has been telling us how "brilliant" Moonves is. The evidence? CBS rose in the ratings from last to first. But as there are only four networks that matter, and the ratings differences between them are actually small, this is not so impressive. They generally run neck-in-neck, and often shift in position. It's a big deal to the corporations because they are hyper-competitive. (Even while being practically indistinguishable in their content.) Even the BBC fed its listeners the line about Moonves' "genius" as a "programmer."
This is standard for the BBC. The BBC is slavishly sycophantic in its parroting of the lines of the U.S. power establishment. The BBC must have no self-respect. (The BBC- British Broadcasting Corporation- is the official propaganda arm of the British government. It broadcasts around the world in various languages, especially to "Commonwealth" nations- that is, former British colonies.)
The End. (Is that okay, to end like that? I mean, it is the end!)
1] "As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Six Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims," New Yorker, September 9, 2018.
2] "Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: 'It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS,'" The Hollywood Reporter, February 29, 2016. At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, Moonves enthused, "I've never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going." Moonves also giddily said, "Man, who would have expected the ride we're all having right now? ... The money's rolling in and this is fun."
And now we get to see the EPA wrecked, which will despoil the environment and give thousands more people cancer. And thousands of immigrant children kidnapped by ICE. Fun.
What a fucker.
3] "Exclusive: Les Moonves Was Obsessed With Ruining Janet Jackson’s Career, Sources Say," Huffington Post, September 6, 2018.
Utterly selfish billionaire creep Leslie Moonves.
CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves is negotiating a payout of $100 million as his price for leaving CBS after The New Yorker magazine has published a second expose of his sexual misconduct, assaults, and vengeful career-wrecking of women who spurn his crude advances. This time there are six more women describing forced fellatio, physical violence, and threats of retaliation for failure to satisfy The Great Man's sexual urges. [1]
This is the man who did so much to make Donald Trump president, boasting to an audience of rich creeps that "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." [2]
The CBS corporate board of directors has mooted the possibility of donating $20 million- one fifth of Moonves expected sack of loot- to the #MeToo anti-sexual harassment movement. They plan to hire an outside law firm to "investigate" the "allegations," and supposedly might pay Moonves nothing.
Corporate media has been reporting that even if Moonves gets no "severance" package, he has still extracted during his time at CBS one BILLION dollars! But the greed of such plutocrats is insatiable, so Moonves has been in a tug of war with the CBS board for weeks to try and extract every additional dollar he can.
Here's how dishonest CBS "News" is. In reporting the story as the first item on the 8 am (EST) national broadcast on September 10, their radio network omitted the fact that CBS is hiring the outside law firm to investigate not just Moonves, but the environment of sexual harassment at CBS and at CBS "News."
The board issued the standard boilerplate bullshit about how they don't tolerate a hostile work environment and value their female employees and blah blah blah- a pack of lies. They're pretending not to know the reality inside CBS.
Moonves, for his part, is showing his stripes as a conscienceless, amoral goon, denying the allegations. But it is too many people making too many detailed claims for Moonves to have any credibility. He has also been trying to parry the truth with the smarmy line that he maybe made some women uncomfortable and for that he has regrets.
Oh shove it, you predator.
Moonves penchant for meting out punishment to women wasn't limited to those who failed to satisfy him sexually. After Janet Jackson's breast was accidentally exposed for nine-sixteenths of a second during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, Moonves was inexplicably enraged and proceeded to wreck her career. He used his control over the music video channels MTV and VH1 to ban her videos, wrecking sales of her current album. Her career never recovered. Justin Timberlake, who had torn her outfit, was held blameless by Moonves. Jackson's apology didn't mollify the suddenly hyper-prudish and ultra-Puritanical sex offender Moonves. This in a society drenched in sexual imagery, in which a mountain of hardcore pornography is readily available to anyone with an Internet connection or cable TV subscription. Truly the man is pathological. [3]
During the current scandal du jour, "the" media has been telling us how "brilliant" Moonves is. The evidence? CBS rose in the ratings from last to first. But as there are only four networks that matter, and the ratings differences between them are actually small, this is not so impressive. They generally run neck-in-neck, and often shift in position. It's a big deal to the corporations because they are hyper-competitive. (Even while being practically indistinguishable in their content.) Even the BBC fed its listeners the line about Moonves' "genius" as a "programmer."
This is standard for the BBC. The BBC is slavishly sycophantic in its parroting of the lines of the U.S. power establishment. The BBC must have no self-respect. (The BBC- British Broadcasting Corporation- is the official propaganda arm of the British government. It broadcasts around the world in various languages, especially to "Commonwealth" nations- that is, former British colonies.)
The End. (Is that okay, to end like that? I mean, it is the end!)
1] "As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Six Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims," New Yorker, September 9, 2018.
2] "Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: 'It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS,'" The Hollywood Reporter, February 29, 2016. At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, Moonves enthused, "I've never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going." Moonves also giddily said, "Man, who would have expected the ride we're all having right now? ... The money's rolling in and this is fun."
And now we get to see the EPA wrecked, which will despoil the environment and give thousands more people cancer. And thousands of immigrant children kidnapped by ICE. Fun.
What a fucker.
3] "Exclusive: Les Moonves Was Obsessed With Ruining Janet Jackson’s Career, Sources Say," Huffington Post, September 6, 2018.
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