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The Business

Anita Hill and Nina Shaw on the Hollywood Commission

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Hollywood Commission, a new organization chaired by Anita Hill, is out with a survey on harassment in Hollywood and plans to launch a reporting platform next year.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:06.3

The Hollywood Commission was founded three years ago in the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal to tackle inappropriate conduct in an industry with lots of it.

0:16.3

Now the group, chaired by Anita Hill, has issued its first report.

0:20.2

The results of a survey that showed

0:21.8

most respondents still don't believe people with power will be held accountable for bad

0:26.3

behavior. People say, recently, I've seen a lot of powerful men, or a handful of powerful

0:33.0

men, usually is what they say, have been held accountable.

0:37.9

But that's not the answer to the problem that are people who are below the surface.

0:45.2

Hill and Hollywood Commission co-founder and board member Nina Shaw talk about the changes

0:49.4

they've seen and the ones they haven't since the Me Too movement began.

0:53.7

But first on the news banter, Disney slashes and burns as it leans on California

0:58.8

Governor Gavin Newsom. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

1:06.7

I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

1:10.7

Hi there.

1:11.6

So Disney has gotten to a place of extreme frustration.

1:17.7

And, you know, it's a really sad place.

1:19.5

They have laid off 28,000 workers.

1:23.9

And they are calling out the governor of California, Gavin Newsom.

1:28.6

You know, Gavin Newsom opened the state, as we know, too early.

1:32.4

We have had a surge that has caused a lot of problems.

1:36.3

He's trying to do it right this time.

1:38.5

But Disney is under tremendous pressure.

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