Thinking too much: A Sunday Notebook, Part 1
Some items from the list on my desk ... Leslie Moonves. The head man at CBS is under fire for accusations of repeated sexual misconduct, as reported by Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker. When I was a TV critic and on press tours, Moonves was a popular figure with many because of his charm and his accessibility, not to mention he was a smart guy. But that does not remotely excuse what appears to be years of aggression and threats on his part; in fact, it makes it worse because his public likability hid so much. And, as Farrow reported, CBS had a toxic environment which must be blamed on the man in charge. As my friend Mo Ryan tweeted about Farrow's p iece, it "gets at the core of my frustration in reporting on these issues: The institutional complicity & enabling. For decades. Systematic silencing." Also from Ryan: " without real, *systematic* change on an *institutional* level, those abused and assaulted will continue to be driven out & abusers wi