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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The End of the Weinstein Era

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Recent investigations by The New Yorker and The New York Times have brought to light allegations of sexual harassment and assault against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Many actresses and former employees have accused Weinstein of possible criminal conduct, taking place over the past few decades. Jia Tolentino joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the changing cultural climate and legal procedures around sexual assault.

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This is the political scene, of weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Thursday, October 12th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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A year ago, the Washington Post published the infamous Access Hollywood video in which Donald

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Trump is caught on tape joking about sexually harassing women. He said, among other things,

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and when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Since then, Roger Ailes and

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Bill O'Reilly have been forced to resign from Fox. Bill Cosby went on trial this summer,

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charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. Now the New Yorker and the New York Times have

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published lengthy investigations into numerous charges of sexual harassment and assault by Harvey Weinstein,

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until recently one of Hollywood's most powerful producers.

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The New Yorker made public a tape that was made during a 2015 police sting in New York,

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