From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

To read the news over the past two weeks is to get the sense that at least in the nation's most elite precincts, the party's finally over.

Hollywood director James Toback now being accused by at least 38 women of sexual harassment

and assault. Lockhart Steele fired from Vox Media after allegations of sexual harassment on which he

admitted his guilt. New Zealand celebrity chef John Besh now accused of allowing a toxic culture

in his restaurants from the kitchens to the front offices. Wall Street Journal says that a Fidelity Investment's tech fund manager has resigned.

January, Bill O'Reilly struck a $32 million agreement with a longtime network analyst to settle

allegations of sexual misconduct.

Amazon's Roy Price also resigned today after being put on leave last week after an allegation of sexual harassment.

Five women say Mark Halperin sexually harassed them while he was an executive at ABC News.

Since the news of disgraced Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein's sexual predations,

accusations have been lodged and apologies issued from men in Hollywood, journalism, the food industry,

and yes, even the presidency.

President George H.W. Bush is responding to allegations being made by an actress who is

accusing him of sexual assault.

And countless others. Leon Weaselteer, editor at the New Republic for three decades, accused of sexual harassment,

Nickelodeon producer Chris Savino, Silicon Valley Tech Evangelist Robert Scoble,

Ben Affleck, Ily Vizel.

Suddenly, the silence women kept to hold on to a job or advance in one is now

a price too high to pay.

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