Column: There should be consequences for inappropriate conduct, and on Monday at least, there were.
How the media reacted to the firings of the Fox News and CNN hosts is a signal of the power that cable TV news, and its anchors, continues to wield.against exiting host Brooke Baldwin’s complaint that CNN was a boy’s club by saying “we have plenty of women in power,” may have unintentionally proved how important gender parity is.
First, CNN executives announced that because they took these things “seriously,” Lemon would receive “professional training.” Then, apparently, they decided that was not enough, and now he’s gone too. But it’s also about the culture. Having seen the ubiquity of sexism and sexual harassment in various workplaces, and the resulting damage, we can never unsee it, though there is much debate about how to prevent it or how to respond to allegations that do not include assault, rape or patterns of predatory behavior.
But if you look past the men and at the companies that employed them, at least a small degree of change is visible. For whatever reason — financial, optics, brand-management — the media giants in question parted ways with some of their most powerful players. If not exactly preemptively, then at least relatively swiftly.
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