CBS and Ten Network boss, Les Moonves is quitting under a growing cloud of sexual harassment claims, on top of his complete misreading of the situation in his boardroom brawl with the company’s largest shareholder — the Redstone family’s National Amusements. A new round of sexual assault allegations against Moonves reported by the New Yorker magazine at the weekend has added to earlier claims from a group of women who made sexual harassment claims against Moonves.
Moonves’ resignation emerged on Sunday afternoon in New York a few hours after the Ronan Farrow report. The CBS board reportedly met in New York over the weekend to discuss Moonves’ position. The new claims in the New Yorker are said to have decided the situation once and for all.
Moonves is resigning and not being fired for cause by the board, which means he is entitled to a rather generous severance package including stock options, retirement benefits and a possible production deal.
Late last week that was estimated at more than $US200 million, but US media reports now say he will not get anywhere near that amount. Moonves will only be entitled to “accrued benefits and deferred compensation”. The rest will be held back by the board pending the completion of an investigation into his conduct. Some reports say he could receiving be between $US25 million and $US35 million (but he has been paid more than $US360 million over the past five years).
A claim is nothing but a claim so what is said here in the sentence below cannot be true.
Nothing has been decided.
Sexual harassment is a claim until proven otherwise and a resignation does not settle the claim.
A resignation means Les Moonves has not the material or evidence to fight the claims.
I find it quite serious and badgering by the media in the public sphere that journalists say when something is a claim or an allegation that it therefore follows that it is fact.
It has to be tested in court to be fact. The court decides what is fact, what is fiction and what is just lies.
As this case is not going to be tested in court then Les Moonves can be defamed because nothing is proven. A resignation does not prove things. It sets the protagonist up for Defamation and slander when Les Moonves if he has evidence then he can sue the claimants for Defamation.
1. There are “new claims”, so there are old claims and new claims, and both remain claims.
2. In the “New Yorker”. The claims are published in only one publication. So there is a defence as other publications must not want to touch it. Why is that?
3. ” ..are said to have decided …” Just who has said that the case is decided when it is not decided. A resignation does not decide guilt.
4. ” … the situation … ” The nation would not say that a man who has claims of sexual harassment against him is then said that it is a “situation” It is defamation until proven otherwise.
5. And the words “once and for all” is not the case as a resignation does not decide guilt. The claim continues to be a claim.
“The new claims in the New Yorker are said to have decided the situation once and for all.”