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The CBS board of Canada Goose online directors fired Moonves Sunday after a second New Yorker pieceon his sexual misconduct, written by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Ronan Farrow. Farrow’sfirst investigation of Moonvesran in July. In all, a dozen women said they experienced harassment, intimidation and abuse at the CEO’s hands.

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The board stopped defending Moonves, not after hearing or reading the onslaught of damning accusations, but only when they realized he had been lying to them, according to a deep dive published in The New York Timeson Wednesday. Moonves reportedly let down his buddies on the board five men, whose average age is 80. They were ride or die for the CEO.

“I don’t care if 30 more women come forward and allege this kind of stuff,” 83 year old producer Arnold Kopelson, who until recently sat on CBS’s board, reportedly Canada Goose Outlet told his colleagues in a meeting after The New Yorker’s July report. “Les is our leader and it wouldn’t change my opinion of him.”

(Kopelson also recently emailed comedian Kathy Griffin, urging her to formally apologize to President Donald Trump for a performance art piece criticizing the president. He even drafted a letter of apology for Griffin.

I don’t care if 30 more women come forward and allege this kind of stuff. Les is our leader and it wouldn’t change my opinion of him.

83 year old producer Arnold Kopelson, who until recently sat on CBS’s board.

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“He broke the bro code,” said Jennifer Berdahl, a professor at the University of British Columbia who studies sexual harassment. “That’s why they fired him. He could’ve gone ahead and kept sexually harassing women.”

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canada goose store Shari happened to be in a major power struggle with Moonves over the company’s future: She wanted to re merge Viacom, which is struggling, with CBS, which is doing well. canada goose store

buy canada goose jacket cheap Moonves and his team of octogenarians were fending her off. They’d even gone to court seeking to diminish Redstone’s power on the board. buy canada goose jacket cheap

No one is arguing that Shari Redstone is some kind of boardroom feminista. It canada goose store seems clear that the Me Too accusations gave her the leverage she needed to win the power struggle.

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canada goose factory sale “The fact that Redstone was female and Moonves, who fetishized mafia culture, was male absolutely contributed to the factions on the board,” said Liz Stapp, a professor at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado. “Moonves saw himself as Don Corleone canada goose deals and saw Redstone as threatening his control over the CBS family.” canada goose factory sale

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“For years, Moonves loaded up the network with highly profitable, male dominated series, always careful to stir in and amply reward an occasional actress,” writes Linda Bloodworth canada goose black friday sale Thomason inThe Hollywood Reporter. “But mostly, he presided over a plethora of macho crime shows featuring a virtual genocide of dead naked hotties in morgue drawers, with sadistic female autopsy reports, ratcheted up each week. (‘Is that a missing breast implant, lieutenant?’ ‘Yes sir, we also found playing cards in her uterus.’)”

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Gender harassment and sexual harassment go hand in hand, Berdahl said. “They play off each other.”

Moonves set the tone at the top only acting friendly to women if they played a certain kind of sexualized role. “He creates this atmosphere that only men can succeed in, canada goose and it’s like open season on women,” Berdahl said.

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It’s no coincidence that other men at CBS have been ousted over sexual misconduct allegations, including news host Charlie Rose and “60 Minutes” executive producer Jeff Fager, who was Canada Goose Jackets fired Wednesday.

Canada Goose online The CBS board overwhelmingly white, male and elderly is hardly an outlier in corporate America. Men hold nearly 80 percent of the board seats in the S 500. There are still companies without a single woman on their boards, including TiVo and Skechers. Canada Goose online

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