Leslie Moonves is being charged with all sorts of sexual improprieties, none of them very recent, and demands are being made that he step down as head of CBS or that he be suspended by the network. As is today’s normal, he is presumed guilty, not only before conviction in a court of law, but before even being charged by any legal entity which could bring him into a courtroom.
What the media is not reporting is that Moonves is in a battle with Shari Redstone, controlling stockholder of CBS and of Viacom. She wants to merge the two giant media companies, while Moonves does not. Can there be much doubt that these accusations are a campaign by Redstone to discredit Moonves in order to achieve her corporate goals, and is it surprising that the media which is financially controlled by her is assisting her in that campaign?
This is the nature of the justice system in The United States today.
never heard of this guy. and is any of this in the 'news' - that is news not controlled by this oligarch?
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, I don't like the 'condemned by court of popular opinion' either. Many /most of these men are not getting the due process they are afforded under the law. They may well have done what they are accused of, but they are entitled to it.
If the weight and number of accusations reach a critical mass, then yesah explosions can occur (aka: bill cosby).