{"id":3949,"date":"2018-09-09T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/09\/09\/cbs-chief-les-moonves-expected-to-resign-following-six-more-accusations-of-sexual-harassment\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:18:07","slug":"cbs-chief-les-moonves-expected-to-resign-following-six-more-accusations-of-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/09\/09\/cbs-chief-les-moonves-expected-to-resign-following-six-more-accusations-of-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Chief Les Moonves Expected to Resign Following Six More Accusations of Sexual Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/as-leslie-moonves-negotiates-his-exit-from-cbs-women-raise-new-assault-and-harassment-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a New Yorker report<\/a> that includes six more allegations against the embattled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\">CBS<\/a> chief, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/les-moonves\/\" id=\"auto-tag_les-moonves\">Les Moonves<\/a> is expected to resign his post by tomorrow morning. A total of 12 women have now accused him of sexual misconduct, with some of their stories dating back decades;\u00a0according to <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/09\/media\/les-moonves-cbs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CNN<\/a>, CBS&#8217; board of directors will announce the departure after a &#8220;global&#8221; settlement that could be worth more than $100 is finalized.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/stephen-colbert-responds-allegations-boss-les-moonves-1201989506\/\" title=\"Stephen Colbert Responds to Allegations Against Boss Les Moonves: \u2018Accountability Is Meaningless Unless It\u2019s for Everybody\u2019\">Stephen Colbert Responds to Allegations Against Boss Les Moonves: \u2018Accountability Is Meaningless Unless It\u2019s for Everybody\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI recognize that there were times decades ago when I may have made some women uncomfortable by making advances,\u201d Moonves said in a statement following the first round of accusations. \u201cThose were mistakes, and I regret them immensely. But I always understood and respected \u2014 and abided by the principle \u2014 that \u2018no\u2019 means \u2018no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest New Yorker report was written by Ronan Farrow, as was the first; he has also reported extensively on Harvey Weinstein and other high-profile figures accused of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/chuck-lorre-les-moonves-allegations-cbs-unsafe-1201989130\/\" title=\"Chuck Lorre Avoids Les Moonves Question But Stresses \u2018You Can\u2019t Do Good Work in an Unsafe Environment\u2019\">Chuck Lorre Avoids Les Moonves Question But Stresses \u2018You Can\u2019t Do Good Work in an Unsafe Environment\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Among Moonves&#8217; accusers is Illeana Douglas, who alleges that he held her down and forcibly kissed her in 1997. \u201cYou sort of black out,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/leslie-moonves-sexual-harassment-cbs-ronan-farrow-1201988606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> at the time. &#8220;You think, How long is this going to go on? I was just looking at this nice picture of his family and his kids. I couldn\u2019t get him off me&#8230;It has stayed with me the rest of my life, that terror,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the publication of a New Yorker report that includes six more allegations against the embattled CBS chief, Les Moonves is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-11H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}