It is shocking to discover that the amoral old white guys at FoxNews turned out to be amoral old white guys. Simply shocking.
As much as I'd enjoy piling on FoxNews, this behavior is not limited to them; it was pervasive in every production company I worked in my time in Hollywood. Producers would hire women specifically to be able to have sex with them. There were jobs that were traditionally assigned to a woman (wardrobe, public relations, script supervisor) and if a woman held a position outside the norm, she was spotlighted as a "female" director... her gender was always placed before her job title. Inevitably, there were two groups of women in every production office: The women who played that bullsh*t game, and the women who worked doubly hard to prove themselves regardless of their sex. Both groups resented the hell out of each other, and the men were somewhere in the middle. What makes FoxNews a unique case is it is atypical for the on-air talent to be the victims and perpetrators of the sexual misconduct. And keep in mind I was at CNBC at the tail end of Ailes' involvement there, as he was burned by the NBC family when they pulled the plug on his America's Talking network and replaced it with MSNBC. As the 21st century loomed, those in the spotlight did all they could to avoid sexual harassment. It was the backstage crew and production staff (the ones whose names are now microscopic in the closing credits) who found themselves embroiled in the sexual games. So for the O'Reillys and the Dooceys to be among the accused, and for the accusers to be the female on-air talent... that's what is going to make this story sizzle. On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has filed a lawsuit against the 21st >> Century Fox division, former CEO Roger Ailes, his replacement Bill Shine >> and three female execs (including PR chief Irena Briganti) alleging sexual >> harassment and describing the workplace as "a Playboy Mansion-like cult, >> steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny": >> >> http://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-andrea-tantaros-sexual-haras >> sment-lawsuit-roger-ailes-bill-shine/ >> >> Bill O'Reilly, although not a defendant, is mentioned in the suit as >> making unwarranted sexual advances to Tantaros, who appeared on "The Five" >> and the midday remake of "Leave It to the Girls" "Outnumbered" before not >> renewing her contract with the channel about the time Gretchen Carlson >> filed her sexual harassment suit against Ailes. >> > > Carlson filed suit against Ailes and not 21 C Fox because she had an > employment clause that would send the complaint to binding arbitration. I > would assume that Tantaros has a similar clause so it's interesting that > she is naming 21 C Fox as a defendant. Her attorney must think that 21 C > Fox is more vulnerable than when Carlson filed suit. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
