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🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Over the weekend, the New Yorker published a second story by Ronan Farrow about Les Moonves. This one chronicled six more allegations of graphic sexual misconduct by the CBS CEO. Moonves is now out at the company.
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0:00.0 | I am joined by my colleague in banter, who is in Toronto, Matt Bellany. |
0:04.9 | Hello, Matt. |
0:05.7 | Hello, from Canada. |
0:08.0 | So we are doing, for the second time in a few weeks, what I would call an emergency banter. |
0:13.2 | We had previously recorded banter, but over the weekend, a gigantic story dropped. |
0:18.4 | Most people have undoubtedly heard by now that Ronan Farrow struck again |
0:22.9 | in The New Yorker, a follow-up story to his initial piece on Leslie Moonvez. This one filled with |
0:29.1 | incredibly damning detail about attacks that were violent and graphic descriptions of totally unacceptable illegal conduct, forcing women into |
0:41.0 | sexual acts that they did not want to be involved with. And very quickly, the lights went out |
0:46.7 | at CBS for Les Moonvez, which is something that just a few months ago would have seemed |
0:51.9 | absolutely impossible. Right. I mean, this one is different. |
0:55.2 | This is not like the other Me Too situations because this is the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, |
1:02.6 | the first one to be toppled by Me Too type allegations. And he is a legend in the industry. |
1:09.6 | This is someone who has been at CBS for 24 years before that running Warner Brothers Television. |
1:15.6 | He's responsible for some of the biggest hits in the history of television. |
1:19.6 | New York Magazine once called him Mr. Television. |
1:21.6 | So the fact that within the span of two months, this person has been erased from the industry. It is a pretty shocking |
1:29.7 | development. Yeah, you know, and this comes as he is locked in this, he had been locked in this |
1:36.0 | fight with Sherry Redstone, whose father Sumner had created this empire of CBS and Viacom. For a long |
1:43.6 | time, Les Moonvez wanted nothing more than to run both |
1:46.4 | halves of the Redstone Empire. But as time went on and the business started to shift so dramatically, |
1:52.5 | Viacombe became a very troubled company. Also, there was a lot of mismanagement under the |
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