Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

The original Tony Ortega Voice piece they link to has a lot of it, but there's more details in this one. In sum: it's a roast but even for a roast it's a really fucking gross roast, the more so in obvious retrospect.

xxp all the quotes in the Fox News article are sourced from a Village Voice writeup of the roast in 2008. yes, despite the url its not fayyke nyews

I think Lizz Winstead (who yes, created the show) left partly because Craig Kilborn was such a fucking fratty douche.

"She quit in 1998 shortly after Kilborn told Esquire magazine, “To be honest, Lizz does find me very attractive. If I wanted her to blow me, she would.”:

that aminitow sow's twitter feed is exactly why I try to never go on twitter

The NYT crew that broke the original Weinstein story has a massive new one up

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/us/harvey-weinstein-complicity.html

Suffice to say Bob Weinstein, among many others, are about to be fully shredded.

2 months tomorrow since the first story ran

Kinda want to take back some shit I said about the NYT but don’t want to give K3v the satisfaction. Aaaaarrrrgh.

Ugh the new NYT piece just puts me right back in the same place as those first stories. His actions are abject & terrifying... but the network he’s created to enable it is just as frightening.

And I dont mean frightening that it exists. I took that as a given. I mean frightening to think about drawb in by that network, being assaulted, and then smothered by that network. Being pursued. Being paid off. Being pushed into the dirty laundry cart & sent down the chute with such efficiency that you are only realizing on the way down that you are not just one. You are one of many. Hundreds. And there is a PROCEDURE for handling you and your damaged life.

Thinking about what that feels like makes me feel so afraid and angry and hurt.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-am-a-victim-of-sexual-harassment-and-i-want-you-to-question-my-story/2017/12/05/e4bc780a-d626-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.2bd3d4ac2247

said like a true academic

fucking usc of course

person of the year!!!!1111

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/12/06/poy-2017-cover_vert-f1543ad0e414ef2a31d9b0e95c3d100a62eeee91-s900-c85.jpg

in what way was Taylor a silence breaker? I thought she'd been dissing exes in her songs for years.

I have uh mixed feelings about her being on there (vs dozens of others who had a lot more to lose).

uh do you not remember the trial from earlier this year

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jury-sides-with-taylor-swift-in-groping-trial-w497780

alternately you could you know. click the link

sure other people had more to lose and one could say that focusing on celebrities and the rich and those in the culture industry, as much of the press has done, only results in a fraction of the problem being examined. but her trial shone a light on a toxic culture in radio, one that absolutely gets beamed out to listeners and helps put america in an ever more retrogressive place

like the manboyism of radio is something that isn’t discussed much because it’s “what the market wants.” which should make it an even more crucial topic of inquiry

I knew about the trial. It's just a little odd to see her sharing space with women who had to act out against people with markedly more power than they had. But yes, there are certainly worse topics to make a calculated appeal to a broader audience like this with.

ah i missed the trial.

we had our 'own' Dutch case of radio manboyism this week (http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/05/dutch-radio-station-apologises-streaker-prank-leaves-singer-tears-7134264/)

Yeah morning zoo crew culture is perpetually stuck on 1990, it's weird when I listen every now and then, same old schtick descended from Stern and a zillion small market losers killing time between Aerosmith and whatever

Lena Dunham coming across really well the new NYTimes piece, sounds like she actually was trying to point out this fucked up thing. extra fucked up that no one believed her.

bet the Clintons are counting their blessings that the TV documentary they were making w HW never got made.

They put Taylor Swift on the cover to sell magazines--very defendable choice of editing. Would rather have more gas on the fire even if it comes at the cost of more stargazing.

So, this is because Trumpo turned them down?

(leaving that typo in..)

Trump didn't turn them down, he was just in the running.

"I know...."

Person of the Year Runner-up: Donald Trump
Person of the Year Runner-up: Xi Jinping
Person of the Year Runner-up: Robert Mueller
Person of the Year Runner-up: Kim Jong Un
Person of the Year Runner-up: Colin Kaepernick
Person of the Year Runner-up: Patty Jenkins

what else do i have to say

Kim Jong Un would have been incredible

The idea of Kim Jong Un in any form is incredible

wish they'd listed kap before trump just to twist the knife

there was a period this year where it felt like kap was a lock

sorta reminds me of how 9/11 stole jim jeffords shine lol

on a much bigger scale obv

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/al-franken-accusation-sexual-harassment-2006-281049

one more time: he needs to fucking go

it's okay i'm sure his memory of that moment differs

WNYC's Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwarz suspended

As elected officials, we should be held to the highest standards—not the lowest. The allegations against Sen. Franken describe behavior that cannot be tolerated. While he’s entitled to an Ethics Committee hearing, I believe he should step aside to let someone else serve.

— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) December 6, 2017

Al Franken should resign.

— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) December 6, 2017

this senatorship is OVAH

they seem to be coming out en masse now, looks like a coordinated effort

Dems calling for a Senator to resign at the same time the RNC is actively trying to get a pedophile elected seems like a pretty good snapshot of where things are at right now

Tom Perez has also told him to go.

When you didn’t get the memo pic.twitter.com/uucAmzmwBN

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) December 6, 2017

It's a metaphor, obviously

the snowy owls of pure untainted politics

Not what they seem to recall

that was likely a scheduled tweet that someone forgot to turn off

What do the "Great Lakes" represent?

Kinda want to take back some shit I said about the NYT but don’t want to give K3v the satisfaction. Aaaaarrrrgh.

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 8:48 PM (yesterday)

;)

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.