Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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!

Wouldn't want to expend valuable energy standing up and walking to the door to lock it.

It would be extremely intimidating if the door locked while both hands are still on the desk. I guess one would innocently assume they exist because rich people don't like walking across their giant offices to lock a door to have a private "business discussion".

how else would Ned Beatty be able to give that crazy speech in Network if not for automatic curtain sliders and door lockers

having a way to lock your door from your desk doesn't strike me as intrinsically creepy, but when you're known as a serial sexual harasser...yeah

can only assume these guys also have a trap-door button under their desk like mr burns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onSbOXKDfaQ

Just a little flirting

having a way to lock your door from your desk doesn't strike me as intrinsically creepy

nah, it's really really fucking creepy.

if you want to lock your door behind you, you can just do that as you enter a room and close the door behind you. the reason you would need this button is for locking other people into the room with you. which is creepy. unless there is a good non-creepy reason to lock people into a room without their knowledge i am overlooking.

Don't want anyone walking in and stealing jokes.

if you lock the door remotely from the desk couldn't the person trying to escape just unlock the door on the way out?

of course higher level executives want to be able to close doors without having to get up. they might trip over their own shortcomings on the way from their desks

Yeah it's creepy af

if you lock the door remotely from the desk couldn't the person trying to escape just unlock the door on the way out?

― reggae mike love (polyphonic)

There may be no unlocking mechanism on the the door itself, which ups the creepiness factor.

if you want to lock your door behind you, you can just do that as you enter a room and close the door behind you. the reason you would need this button is for locking other people into the room with you. which is creepy. unless there is a good non-creepy reason to lock people into a room without their knowledge i am overlooking.

You want the locking button because you're a high-powered borderline sociopath executive who basically farms out every bit of real work in life to someone else, time is money and time spent taking ten steps to the door is money wasted.

these ads still pop up on youtube; they are feeling less acceptable by the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6aIPUusP5A

You want the locking button because you're a high-powered borderline sociopath executive who basically farms out every bit of real work in life to someone else, time is money and time spent taking ten steps to the door is money wasted.

― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 6:20 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, its obv creepy but i dont think its about locking people in as much as locking ppl out without the person in the room noticing

xpost I dunno, as long as anyone who purchases a Devour frozen meal after watching those commercials is put on some sort of watchlist, they may serve an ultimately beneficent purpose.

if you want to lock your door behind you, you can just do that as you enter a room and close the door behind you. the reason you would need this button is for locking other people into the room with you. which is creepy. unless there is a good non-creepy reason to lock people into a room without their knowledge i am overlooking.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 6:36 PM (one hour ago)

it sounds like the door locks from the inside, not the outside. anyway this is an irrelevant point really

my dad loves Willie Geist and said he would be really bummed if he ended up getting outed as a predator. he was like "he's supposed to be just a great guy, a good family man, has kids, married his middle school sweetheart..." lol i was endeared by my dad's uncharacteristically sincere appreciation for morning tv show host Willie Geist

I met Willie Geist at a journalism convention in 2013 and he came off like the puffy-faced sociopath in Breaking Bad but with a wicked wit (which he flexes on Morning Joe)

which puffy faced sociopath, Dale Boettecker? the guy that ends up paralyzed?

and yea he's hilarious

A few words on my history with Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegone and A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION which may surprise you...

I grew up LOVING A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION.

— Steven Thrasher (@thrasherxy) November 29, 2017

I don't wanna hear it.

not to spoil thrasher's tweetstorm but he quickly learns the error of his ways

Keillor looks like a melted candle made of dough

Okay, Lauer clearly needs to be arrested at this point.

This story has changed. The original version said only that Lauer "had sex with her." Now it says he "locked the door and sexually assaulted her" and that she "passed out and had to be taken to a nurse." https://t.co/jHJg03HglB

— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) November 30, 2017

welp egg on my face. adam otm!

Keillor looks like a radiation victim

Most charitable theory is that the lock-button keeps people popping in and making the “hey, are you on the phone? Can we talk after?” gesture.

it's probably for when you fire someone and they leave your office and you immediately lock the door so they don't come back and kill you.

President Keyes, you made me legit lol with "I'm a fool to do your flirty work"

Just to do devil's advocacy: My wife's a journalist who works from home. I can actually imagine situations where a door lock that she could activate without getting up would be helpful. The scenario would be: she's been trying to get an interview with an elusive and/or nervous source with sensitive information. She's left the source voice mail saying "feel free to call me at your convenience." The source calls her out of the blue, ready to talk, and it's at an odd time, like just before dinner. So she's doing a critical interview, finally getting a shy source to speak. And... the children or I bound into the room to ask her whether we have guacamole or hey the toilet's stopped or hey do you know where my charger is.

That's a reasonable professional explanation why a person WHO IS ALONE would want to be able to lock the door without telling the other person on the phone, "wait a minute while I get up and go lock the door."

THAT SAID, Matt Fucking Lauer is not a reporter working on breaking stories with nervous sources. He's a person who says things that other people wrote. So, fail.

criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation

Yeah uh, no. People are saying it's possible to do courtship in a way that doesn't even look like predation. And they're calling out predation as what it is: predation.

this is so gross

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yruIL5lVGE4

Lauer has a button under the vanity to stop his toilets whenever he wants

one of my students wrote about this frontline doc for her final paper, and in her response/recommendation section, she suggested that cameras in supervisor's offices are recording during all shifts since that is where many of the assaults occurred. from my perspective, there is no excuse for matt lauer being able to lock people into his office from a secret button on his desk.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/