Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

Lazy "perhaps" tossed in there.

it's shocking that they fired him that quickly after allegations were raised yesterday, at least to me. but there must be more historical issues at play here, the allegations said "longtime". also nymag or someone has been working on a story about him for months so something was about to come out and they probably wanted to get in front of it.

it's not shocking at all, like i said Lauer seemed like he was gonna get the axe for inappropriate behavior and/or his whole weird vendetta against Ann Curry over 5 years ago. he's like, at the bottom of the list when it comes to shocking firings in the past couple months

xp that's true, but again, it seemed like a long time coming, and from what i've read, there's a ton of more information that they know about but has yet to come out

ehhh, it's shocking in that they've been willing to pay him obscene amounts of money and fire co-hosts he didn't like to keep him around

I didn't know anybody but me watched anything but five minutes of morning shows in 2017. I guess The Today Show still makes a tidy enough profit to have justified Lauer's obscene salary?

Part of the deal with 'hosts' is that once the viewing public gets comfortable with a host, they don't like to see any changes. Even new hairdos bother them. So, networks are willing to pay big bucks to keep them happy.

George Stephanopoulos has to be looking over his shoulder right about now.

ehhh, it's shocking in that they've been willing to pay him obscene amounts of money and fire co-hosts he didn't like to keep him around

― President Keyes, Wednesday, November 29, 2017 2:07 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know, not in the post-Weinstein era. would've been shocking before certainly, but like i said i'm shocked he made it this long

also, jesus:

Garrison Keillor joked with DC journalists about sexual harassment, warned against making a world so perfect 'that you and I can't enjoy living in it' https://t.co/tX4WvEsrr7 via @dcexaminer

— Philip Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) November 29, 2017

Fuck the world

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vvhDZSfkL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

I guess I never noticed this before, but Keillor is future schrute.

http://filmpopper.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dwight-k-schrute-3.jpg

i have good memories of keillor's woebegone stories. from i guess the mid-80s. they were touching and thoughtful and slow. my family would sit around and just listen. we lived surrounded by republicans and racism and bullshit and it felt like a kind of reflective oasis. i haven't thought about him in years and years though.

Keillor looks like Chewbacca's father from the Star Wars Holiday Special.

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/starwars-holiday/8.gif

can't find the "this face" thread so
HEY THERE FUCK FACE, HEY THERE FUCK FACE

this facial expression

that's different though, that's the "got caught cheating on my wife" face

Variety's Lauer story is live.

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/matt-lauer-accused-sexual-harassment-multiple-women-1202625959/

"His office was in a secluded space, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up."

wtf

everything in that article was fucking gross

i have good memories of keillor's woebegone stories. from i guess the mid-80s. they were touching and thoughtful and slow. my family would sit around and just listen. we lived surrounded by republicans and racism and bullshit and it felt like a kind of reflective oasis. i haven't thought about him in years and years though.

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:56 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel you on this

It is pretty bad when the least offensive thing you've done is played FMK with coworkers about other coworkers.

yeah that's so quaint

What not to do!

Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me. News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation. What about #GarrisonKeillor?

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 29, 2017

"News is a flirty business"

I've... no words

Okay so Geraldo is in the queue for some primo allegations, is my takeaway from that.

geraldo’s nervous flopsweat is palpable in that tweet

waiting for the shoe to drop i presume

I'm a fool to do your flirty work

or dan otm iow xp

I have never heard of anyone say "I got into the news game to meet girls"

lol rogue "of" there, you know what I mean

you get to wear a hat taht sez 'press' in it, totally takes the pressure off introducing yourself, it's a readymade excuse to chat whoever up!

Lol @ Dan's DN

'News is a flirty business' is an insane thing to say. What it's saying is: 'sexual harassment is part of the news business'. That may be closer to the truth. But then try and make it not so.

I watched Network the day after the Charlie Rose story broke and it was pretty startling, as prescient as it is in many ways it also shows & celebrates that kind of "news is a flirty business" mindset. not to mention that movie is single-handedly responsible for Aaron Sorkin

The whole Matt Lauer Office Sex Button thing should be a really good jumping off point for figuring out how the bosses at NBC has indulged and protected him.

oh plz let geraldo disappear

The tweets that follow that are, how you say, 'interesting.'

the twist in al capones vault should have been that it turned into a real life cask of amontillado feat. Geraldo

the key thread of the Lauer Variety article is that he and his ilk are in-house philanderers so they can keep up their 'public face' bullshit.

ie I wonder if he had his remote door lock installed, or if it was inherited.

It's funny how he got into the biz to meet girls when most women think journalists and journalism majors are, with good reason, among the least concerned with personal hygiene and basic standards of dress.

the only positive thing Geraldo ever did was not avoid a chair thrown by a neo nazi on his tv show.

lol Ned OTM

https://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Myself-Geraldo-Paisner-Daniel/dp/B000ZPOWA4

what the--!

― omar little, Wednesday, November 29, 2017

decades' worth of macalester alumna shaking their heads like damn son you didn't know?

demanding someone suck your dick isn't flirting, Gerardo

There's no way to know if that door lock button was installed for Hugh Downs in 1965

Breaking News: NBC received at least 2 more complaints about Matt Lauer, hours after his firing https://t.co/w1gdKZlJcb

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 29, 2017

Apparently these door lock switches are a thing at NBC.

FYI, as strange as it sounds in print, several execs at NBC News have this auto door close switch under their office desks at 30 Rock. I always found it to be intimidating but not unusual.

— Betsy Fischer Martin (@BFischerMartin) November 29, 2017

why... would you need to trap people in your office. or block people out, I guess?

well, it's TV!