Fox News, CNN and NBC Universal all let go of male anchors and bosses with histories of sexual harassment – for self-interest
to the Dominion lawsuit – either because the Dominion lawyers back-channeled that they wanted his head or because what came out during discovery was so damning that Murdoch wanted Carlson gone, or perhaps because Carlson, who was in contract negotiations, was simply too expensive considering the huge payout Fox now owes. Whatever the reason, Carlson is another of Fox’s best-known entities, who was accused of workplace harassment and subsequently lost his job.
Don Lemon’s firing is the muddiest of the three. Back in February, Lemon made a horribly ill-conceived point about age in politics when, in response to former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley’s proposal for a competency test for older politicians,, “This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable,” and added, “I think it is the wrong road to go down. She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime.
That comment was offensive and foolish, even if Lemon didn’t mean to say quite what he said. And the aftermath was brutal: Lemon was broadly condemned, and otherof bad behavior began to surface. Whether that was enough for CNN to fire him, though, remains an open question. I wish it were the case that the #MeToo movement had so thoroughly changed American society that sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sexist comments were all enough for men to see proportionate consequences. Unfortunately, that’s far from the case. And while these big network shakeups are all happening in the same week, the throughline seems to be less “networks are taking misogyny seriously” and more “networks are acting in their own calculated self-interest.
Sometimes the interests of women and those of big companies line up, and badly-behaved men are pushed out. But even with these high-profile filings, I’m not sure feminists can take a victory lap quite yet.
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