Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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.

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?!