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The piece exposed the complicity and enabling that is widespread not just at CBS, but at CBS News.
I am confident they were.
Beyond that, it would be inappropriate for me to address specific allegations while an independent review is ongoing.
Many of them supply bureaucratic delays that may ensure that reporters lose interest in a story.
Foot-dragging diffidence already afflicts CBS as well.
Its been nearly 3 months, & I have not heard a word about any results of that investigation.
Fager still has a job.
Kern, though suspended, still has a job.
And he has many supporters inside CBS.
Many big TV networks and media companies not just CBS appear to be waiting the whole thing out.
If I sound pessimistic, its because Ive been down this road before.
And that usually only happened after those companies had their dismal representation statistics called out in the press.
In some instances, that had to happen repeatedly.
Those personal awakenings are good.
Individual transformation is no substitute for institutional, systemic, sustained change.
One is almost meaningless without the other to back it up.
What of the executives male and female who learned how to lead and manage from clever, manipulative narcissists?
