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Posted Monday 9/17/18 at 4:43PM EDT Michael Bloomberg questions the Charlie Rose sexual harassment allegations

Source: The New York Times

The former New York City mayor weighed in on the allegations against Rose while talking to The New York Times about potentially running for president as a Democrat. Rose taped his PBS show at Bloomberg Television, and Bloomberg TV canceled rebroadcasting Charlie Rose after sexual misconduct allegations were reported against him in The Washington Post. “The stuff I read about is disgraceful — I don’t know how true all of it is,” said Bloomberg, adding: “We never had a complaint, whatsoever, and when I read some of the stuff, I was surprised, I will say. But I never saw anything and we have no record, we’ve checked very carefully.”

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, Bloomberg TV, Michael Bloomberg, Sexual Misconduct
Posted Thursday 9/13/18 at 11:07PM EDT Les Moonves, Jeff Fager and Charlie Rose helped shape how our society sees women

Source: The Washington Post

"It’s impossible to know how different America would be if power-happy and misogynistic men hadn’t been running the show in so many influential media organizations — certainly not just CBS," says Margaret Sullivan of three high-profile CBS departures. Sullivan points out that powerful men like Moonves, Fager and Rose didn't have to sexually harass women to exert their power, as shown in two instances on Tuesday. CBS News reporter Jericka Duncan, who received a threatening text from then-60 Minutes executive producer Fager, wasn't a victim of sexual harassment. Neither was Designing Women creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason, who penned a Hollywood Reporter guest column Tuesday describing how CBS boss Moonves sidelined her career. "Neither Duncan nor Bloodworth-Thomason have said they were victims of sexual harassment at CBS. But they certainly were mistreated," says Sullivan. "And these two moments offer a hint of how widespread the damage of a misogynistic culture can be — with the harm extending well beyond the primary victims whose careers, in some cases, were irrevocably derailed." ALSO: CBS News is looking as sexist, sick and predatory as Fox News.

# TOPICS: Les Moonves, CBS, Charlie Rose, Jeff Fager, Jericka Duncan, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, CBS News, Sexual Misconduct

Posted Tuesday 9/04/18 at 9:45AM EDT CBS News requests removal from Charlie Rose sexual harassment lawsuit

Source: TheWrap

CBS News says its three former employees suing Rose have no grounds for claims against the news organization because it can't be responsible for his alleged sexual harassment. ALSO: Charlie Rose made a rare public appearance at John McCain's funeral.

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, John McCain, CBS News, Legal, Sexual Misconduct
Posted Thursday 8/30/18 at 1:33AM EDT Louis CK's return may be a preview of how other #MeToo offenders stage their comebacks
Source: Slate

The #MeToo offenders could find their way back to the public eye by following Louis CK's lead, staging small comebacks that will generate repeated outrage that will dissipate over time, says Christina Cauterucci. "Here’s a forecast for future post-#MeToo returns based on what has transpired since Sunday," says Cauterucci. "Every time CK or one of his canceled peers reemerges, some people will get mad, but most people won’t, and there will be other, more pressing outrages to smother with energy, and before anyone fully grasps what’s going on, they’ll be back on tour, or rolling through the credits of our TV shows and movies, with an ugly entry on their Wikipedia pages but a growing bank account to soothe that indignity." She adds: "CK’s Sunday set suggests that it may not be a sympathetic Charlie Rose roundtable or glossy magazine spread or self-aware, highly produced streaming special that heralds these men’s reentry into public life. The more likely route to reputation renovation will simply be nonchalant reintroduction into the cultural bloodstream, little by little, like routine allergy shots that cause a milder reaction with each prick."
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# TOPICS: Louis CK, Charlie Rose, Sexual Misconduct, Stand-Up Comedy, Time's Up

Posted Friday 8/17/18 at 6:27PM EDT Charlie Rose accused of dodging sexual harassment lawsuit

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Rose was spotted having dinner with his former PBS show executive producer, Yvette Vega, on the day The New Yorker dropped its Ronan Farrow bombshell on Les Moonves' sexual harassment scandal, which also tackled the culture at CBS News and Rose's behavior. Rose's dinner came 10 days after he reportedly had abdominal surgery, which he used as an excuse to postpone his response to a sexual harassment lawsuit brought on by three former staffers. The attorney for the plaintiffs brought up Rose's dinner to suggest he his medical situation isn't that serious. Rose's attorney responded: "He needs to eat."

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, Legal, Sexual Misconduct
Posted Monday 8/06/18 at 2:50PM EDT Charlie Rose reportedly underwent "major surgery" last month

Source: The Blast

According to The Blast, Rose's "major surgery" was revealed in court documents filed in response to litigation over his CBS sexual harassment scandal. Rose's attorney said the former CBS This Morning co-anchor underwent abdominal surgery on July 17 and is taking six weeks to recover. “Mr. Rose’s recent hospitalization and recovery has left him unable to devote the time necessary to work with counsel or prepare a defense to the claims,” his attorney explained.

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, CBS, CBS News, Legal, Sexual Misconduct

Posted Wednesday 8/01/18 at 12:04AM EDT Les Moonves sexual harassment allegations look like further proof that abusive power players shape the stories that are told
Source: Variety

Moonves is a one of the most influential gatekeepers in what stories are told and how they are told, and his impact extends all the way through CBS' many subsidiaries, from CBS News to CBS All Access to The CW and Simon & Schuster. So it should be concerning that somebody accused of sexual harassment has overseen a CBS Corp. that has been brimming with sexual misconduct allegations, from 60 Minutes to Charlie Rose to former NCIS producer Brad Kern and CW Arrowverse producer Andrew Kreisberg. "The point is simply this: People accused of sexual harassment and assault have formed the backbone of police procedurals, teen superhero dramas and some of the country’s (previously) most trusted news programming," says Caroline Framke. "How did these men shape the stories they were telling to millions? Which stories haven’t been told at all? Whose voices were silenced or dismissed as unimportant? Who was elevated, and who became collateral damage? What, exactly, have we lost because of powerful egos throwing their weight around?"
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- Why Moonves' female supporters are flawed in their defense: An abuser won't abuse everybody
- Moonves could lose up to $315 million if he's fired
# TOPICS: Les Moonves, CBS, 60 Minutes, Andrew Kreisberg, Brad Kern, Charlie Rose, CBS News, Sexual Misconduct
Posted Friday 7/20/18 at 5:44AM EDT Report: 60 Minutes executive producer hired a law firm to water down a Washington Post story on his role in the Charlie Rose scandal

Source: The Daily Beast

60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager, the former CBS News chairman who installed Rose on 60 Minutes in 2008 and tapped him for CBS This Morning in 2011, was barely mentioned in The Washington Post's follow-up May 3 story on Rose's alleged sexual harassment. That's because, according to The Daily Beast, Fager hired the law firm Clare Locke, which has a reputation for "killing stories" about sexual harassment. Clare Locke has done work on behalf of Matt Lauer, according to The Daily Beast, and has used legal tactics against Katie Couric, CNN and Rolling Stone over potential stories. The Daily Beast says The Post's story was to contain a lot of information about Fager, but the story was "effectively neutered" thanks to the law firm's tactics.

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, CBS, 60 Minutes, Jeff Fager, CBS News, Sexual Misconduct, The Washington Post

Posted Thursday 6/28/18 at 10:16PM EDT Charlie Rose won't attend Sun Valley gathering of billionaires

Source: Page Six

Earlier this month several new outlets reported that the disgraced former CBS and PBS host had been invited to the annual retreat featuring big names like Disney's Bob Iger and CBS' Les Moonves, sparking speculation of a potential comeback. Now Page Six is reporting that Rose won't attend.

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, Sexual Misconduct
Posted Tuesday 6/12/18 at 6:33PM EDT Gayle King thinks the #MeToo movement needs due process

Source: The New York Times

The New York Times Magazine asked the CBS This Morning anchor, who is still friends with Charlie Rose following his firing, whether there's a potential for a #MeToo backlash. "I do worry about that, because I think when a woman makes an accusation, the man instantly gets the death penalty," she says. "There has to be some sort of due process here. All of these inappropriate behaviors are not all the same."

# TOPICS: Sexual Misconduct, CBS, CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose, Gayle King
Posted Friday 6/08/18 at 11:16PM EDT Charlie Rose is set to hang out with billionaires in Sun Valley -- is this the beginning of his comeback?

Source: Vanity Fair

The disgraced former CBS and PBS host is said to be one of the invitees to the annual Allen & Company retreat that features some of the most powerful powerful moguls, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bob Iger and Les Moonves. As Joe Pompeo points out, the "invite suggests that, in certain quarters, he still very much exists, and raises the still unanswered question of what the afterlife of #MeToo men should be. Can they mingle in gated communities like the Allen & Company gathering but not in public? And how large is the gap between the public discussion of #MeToo and private ones?"

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, Sexual Misconduct
Posted Tuesday 5/08/18 at 1:23PM EDT Christiane Amanpour will host a new PBS late-night show, Amanpour & Company, to replace Charlie Rose

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Premiering in July, Amanpour & Company will replace PBS' simulcast of Amanpour's CNN International program, Amanpour, which had been running as interim replacement since Rose was fired from PBS following his sexual harassment scandal late last year. Amanpour & Company will be hosted by Amanpour in London with a rotating group of contributors. Amanpour will continue hosting her CNN International show.

# TOPICS: Christiane Amanpour , CNN International, PBS, Amanpour & Company, Amanpour on PBS, Charlie Rose
Posted Friday 5/04/18 at 1:53PM EDT CBS and Charlie Rose sued by three former staffers for sexual harassment

Source: TMZ

Former CBS News broadcast associate Katherine Brooks Harris, ex-news associate Yuqing "Chelsea" Wei and Rose's former executive assistant Sydney McNeal -- who were all cited in Thursday's Washington Post story on Rose -- have filed a lawsuit against CBS News and the disgraced former CBS This Morning anchor. All three women allege that Rose berated and intimidated them, boasted about his sexual conquests and encouraged them to share their sexual experiences, according to TMZ. They all say that Rose would repeatedly caress and touch their bodies. Wei said Rose would refer to her as "China Doll" and that he once called her a "f*cking idiot." Harris and McNeal say Rose fired them after The Washington Post's bombshell story last November that resulted in his firing. ALSO: Former Charlie Rose intern writes in detail of his "narcissism, temper, and licentiousness."

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, CBS, PBS, CBS News, Legal, Sexual Misconduct
Posted Friday 5/04/18 at 1:46AM EDT A Charlie Rose #MeToo redemption show sounds absurd, but don't be shocked if it ever does happen

Source: The Boston Globe

The overwhelming response to last week's Page Six story is that "this would NEVER, EVER happen," says Matthew Gilbert. But he says in an era where O.J. Simpson's If I Did It is a possibility, anything can happen. "I can just see some producer putting together a low-budget affair starring Rose and streaming it through Rose’s website, perhaps, or a site with a less obvious stigma," says Gilbert. "I can see people watching it, especially those who find the #MeToo movement to be an expression of liberal political correctness, those who feel that women shouldn’t be so sensitive and difficult. I can see the show developing a loyal following, just as off-kilter sites such as Alex Jones’s InfoWars have. It’s hard to believe Charlie Rose’s Bathrobe Confessions would ever come into existence. But I remember the disbelief I felt in the late 1990s, when I first heard about an upcoming TV series where — oh my God — they actually leave a group of people in the wild to see if they can survive."

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, CBS, PBS, CBS This Morning, CBS News, Sexual Misconduct
Posted Thursday 5/03/18 at 10:55AM EDT Charlie Rose's alleged sexual misconduct was widespread at CBS News; 27 new women come forward

Source: The Washington Post

The Washington Post, which reported first reported on Rose's sexual harassment allegations at PBS last November, has learned that the former CBS This Morning co-anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent also allegedly sexually harassed many female staffers at CBS News. CBS News managers received complaints about Rose's behavior as early as 1986 and as late as April 2017. The Post spoke to 14 CBS News employees who accuse Rose of sexual harassment and 13 women who worked with him elsewhere. The new allegations date back to 1976, when a former research assistant at NBC News' Washington bureau says Rose exposed his penis to her and touched her breasts. Meanwhile, at CBS News, "some women who said they were harassed said they feared reporting the violations to executives, whom they viewed as prioritizing the careers of male stars," report Amy Brittain and Irin Carmon, who broke the first Charlie Rose story. In all, three CBS managers were warned over a 30-year period of Rose's behavior. When asked to respond to the new allegations, Rose sent a one-sentence email: “Your story is unfair and inaccurate.” CBS News issued a statement in response to The Post's article: “Since we terminated Charlie Rose, we’ve worked to strengthen existing systems to ensure a safe environment where everyone can do their best work. Some of the actions we have taken have been reported publicly, some have not. We offer employees discretion and fairness, and we take swift action when we learn of unacceptable behavior. That said, we cannot corroborate or confirm many of the situations described. We continue to look for ways to improve our workplace and this period of reflection and action has been important to all of us. We are not done with this process.” ALSO: Gayle King responds on CBS This Morning: "I have a very bad case of deja vu, I have to say. I feel sick to my stomach. I don't know what to say about this."

# TOPICS: Charlie Rose, CBS, PBS, CBS This Morning, Gayle King, CBS News, NBC News, Sexual Misconduct