Welcome to Axis Pro Radha, a podcast that takes just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech business and politics.

I'm Dan from Mack. On today's show, the tech world is about to lose one of its top executives and the rise of robot restaurants.

But first, the mess at CBS.

It's been well over a month since we all first heard public allegations of sexual harassment

against Les Moonvez, the CEO of CBS, and arguably the single most powerful man in all

of television.

The network promised an investigation, but also let Moonvest host its most recent earnings call,

during which bank analysts played the role of, um, complicit cowards by not asking a single

question about the only thing everyone really wanted to know about. Then came a bombshell report

yesterday by who else, Ronan Farrow, which included many new troubling allegations, some of which are more about sexual assault than sexual harassment.

Farrow also reported that the Los Angeles Police Department had opened a criminal investigation against MUNViz,

based on what they felt was credible evidence, but prosecutors didn't file charges because the statute of limitations had run out.

And making things even worse, some CBS board members apparently

knew about that criminal investigation, quote, early this year. Yeah, early this year, that's way

before the earnings call or way before they had said anything publicly. So bang up job there on

corporate governance and apparently not launching its own investigation until allegations hit the press.

Apparently, some CBS board members didn't realize that fiduciary duty and moral duty are

sometimes one in the same. Now, MoonViz, of course, denies having done anything wrong, and

CBS hasn't released the results of its internal investigation, which could take months.

But CBS does have big clouds hanging over its future, as no other company

nearly this large has ever seen its CEO get his alleged comeuppance in the Me Too era. In short,

CBS is looking an awful lot like an M&A target. And the bottom line here for them is that they can

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