Haha, well you can miss me with that. I think that corporate media is mostly horribl, protects elites, and soft-pedals all kinds of stuff precisely because it depends on ad revenue to survive. I’m surely not surprised that NBC protected Lauer. He made money for them. I’m surely not surprised that CBS was loathe to bounce Moonves—because he’s about the elite-est of the elite and they protect their own. I acknowledge the problem, but instead of grafting a partisan analysis on it, I prefer one that’s mostly economic. Whether it’s Les Moonves or Matt Lauer or Steve Wynn, those folks only get cut loose when they become financial liabilities. Let’s be perfectly clear here—that’s the world YOU prefer. You think P/L trumps everything. You don’t think popular outrage should control a company’s hiring/firing decisions. So why do you have a problem with NBC protecting Matt Lauer or CBS slow-walking Moonves’s exit? It’s hard to have it both ways, here.
There’s another dimension to this entirely, too, and that is that it’s hard to bitch about #MeToo and people losing their livelihoods to accusations while simultaneously arguing, say, that NBC protected Matt Lauer. Seems to me like your willingness to accept accusations of sexual assault, etc, are mostly dependent on your ideological outlook.
