Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

http://www.wnyc.org/story/longtime-wnyc-hosts-put-leave/

people are blaming NYPR chair Laura Walker for Lopate and Schwartz, but given how long they've been there, we don't know when the alleged offenses occurred.

ugh at lopate, really unhappy to hear that

It’s gross af that Time put a sexual predator in the runners-up, while naming victims of sexual predation as person of the year

the list isn't influenced by morality, did you notice there's also a despotic dictator in the runners up

So fucking what?? It’s stull fucking gross

ok

It is gross, and it was even grosser when they actually named him person of the year in 2016. No publicity is bad publicity.

I can't believe this conversation happens every year when Time releases their Person of the Year. Hitler was Person of the Year in 1938. it's not a moral judgment, it's an objective call on who or what influenced the news & the culture & the world the most in that year. if the floodgates hadn't opened after Weinstein, it would've been Trump again, no one comes close.

Sorry the world sucks, don't blame Time

maybe they could name Hitler POTY every year, just as a reminder

Yeah, we understand the intent. The problem is that Trump and probably a good many of his fans just see a magazine cover naming him person of the year and thing 'awesome'.

thing think

Shaaaaaame on you, shameless person we're putting on the cover of our magazine! We hope you feel duly chastised!

yeah let's accommodate idiots more, good call

Yeah that's what I'm arguing, good reading comprehension.

Even having it read "person" of the year would go over their heads

changing a century old tradition to accommodate Trump and MAGA idiots really would stick it to them huh

I don't think "accommodate" means what you think it means and holding onto a tradition for the sake of tradition is foolish.

accommodate as in to adjust to the stupidity of people that misunderstand the concept. i agree that traditions shouldn't be continued simply because they're old, but i see no issue with Time's POTY protocol. it's a reflection of the world, good bad and everything in between.

yes maybe if the intent is easily misunderstood it reflects a poor journalistic practice

that Yes was a xpost to DJP

I don't think it loses anything by being renamed to "newsmaker of the year" or whatever

^agreed on that. not the name I'm wedded to, I'm a fan of the concept.

that's better than "King of the News" which was going to be my suggestion

^Check Out This Person, Whoa!

The tradition comes from a time when the subject in question could be reasonably expected to understand whether being named person of the year was a good thing or a bad thing. Like how we all knew it was a bad thing that one time we were collectively commemorated as the living human population of the planet earth.

i name all of us Successfully Anonymous People of the Year

XXL's Freshman Newsmaker Class

it's all a bit of a cheat anyway: "person of the year" doesn't mean "newsmaker of the year" either - it's a title chosen conferred for how well the person emblematizes major news event(s) while still being a saleable cover star. otherwise clearly Osama bin Laden (or Harvey Weinstein himself) would have been given the designation.

Franken back on SNL w/in 2 years?

Lopate "baffled." No details on allegations.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/06/media/leonard-lopate-jonathan-schwartz-wnyc/index.html

Lopate?!

I don't think it loses anything by being renamed to "newsmaker of the year" or whatever

― Simon H., Wednesday, December 6, 2017 2:57 PM (fifty-five minutes ago)

you guys will love MVP debates on ILH/ILB

BREAK: Lorin Stein, the editor of the Paris Review, has resigned amid an investigation into his conduct with women https://t.co/mUELfZ9ai5

— Sydney Ember (@melbournecoal) December 6, 2017

omg are the bad literary men going to start toppling??? can't wait.

Oof. They all fall down.

The board’s decision to review Mr. Stein’s behavior came after he informed board members that his name had appeared on a list created after the Harvey Weinstein scandal to anonymously crowdsource allegations of harassment and misconduct by men in publishing and media.

can you imag this meeting?

franken will resign tomorrow, apparently

I wish he would cling for his political life and fite

why

This was quite good on these 'confusing' times.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2017/12/where_is_the_line_between_office_flirtation_and_sexual_harassment.html

I wish he would cling for his political life and fite

― Lyudmila Pavlichenko (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:05 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

posts, and the preposterous posters who post them

xp that article is a bit long-winded but not a bad story

I wish he would cling for his political life and fite

― Lyudmila Pavlichenko (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:05 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

posts, and the preposterous posters who post them

― imago, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 11:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTFM. Many posters here crying wolf about Franken. A person who harassed a woman. And the "such a shame, gud sentor, wish e'd fight!" posts are legion. Merely because they liked him as a politician/never expected it from him/such a shame/good guy/boy didna mean no 'arm.

Yeah, this is part of the problem people.

yeehaw wahoo git r done am i rite fellers

The question isn't "Why are Democrats acquiescing?" It's "Let's pulverize the GOP over this in the next year."

How are you not still banned? xp

posters have "forcibly tried" to ban me, it's true

xp Same thing. Dems can, and should, pulverize the GOP without Al fucking Franken. It's up for grabs. There's a GOP monkey in the white house. It's on a silver platter, for the taking. You don't need a harasser to accomplish this great feat. A better monkey should suffice.