Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

uh do you not remember the trial from earlier this year

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jury-sides-with-taylor-swift-in-groping-trial-w497780

alternately you could you know. click the link

sure other people had more to lose and one could say that focusing on celebrities and the rich and those in the culture industry, as much of the press has done, only results in a fraction of the problem being examined. but her trial shone a light on a toxic culture in radio, one that absolutely gets beamed out to listeners and helps put america in an ever more retrogressive place

like the manboyism of radio is something that isn’t discussed much because it’s “what the market wants.” which should make it an even more crucial topic of inquiry

I knew about the trial. It's just a little odd to see her sharing space with women who had to act out against people with markedly more power than they had. But yes, there are certainly worse topics to make a calculated appeal to a broader audience like this with.

ah i missed the trial.

we had our 'own' Dutch case of radio manboyism this week (http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/05/dutch-radio-station-apologises-streaker-prank-leaves-singer-tears-7134264/)

Yeah morning zoo crew culture is perpetually stuck on 1990, it's weird when I listen every now and then, same old schtick descended from Stern and a zillion small market losers killing time between Aerosmith and whatever

Lena Dunham coming across really well the new NYTimes piece, sounds like she actually was trying to point out this fucked up thing. extra fucked up that no one believed her.

bet the Clintons are counting their blessings that the TV documentary they were making w HW never got made.

They put Taylor Swift on the cover to sell magazines--very defendable choice of editing. Would rather have more gas on the fire even if it comes at the cost of more stargazing.

So, this is because Trumpo turned them down?

(leaving that typo in..)

Trump didn't turn them down, he was just in the running.

"I know...."

Person of the Year Runner-up: Donald Trump
Person of the Year Runner-up: Xi Jinping
Person of the Year Runner-up: Robert Mueller
Person of the Year Runner-up: Kim Jong Un
Person of the Year Runner-up: Colin Kaepernick
Person of the Year Runner-up: Patty Jenkins

what else do i have to say

Kim Jong Un would have been incredible

The idea of Kim Jong Un in any form is incredible

wish they'd listed kap before trump just to twist the knife

there was a period this year where it felt like kap was a lock

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.