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    CBS allegations just the latest in long history of sexual harassment claims in network news

    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Jul 31, 2018 4 minutes

    Back in the 1970s and '80s, "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace was known for putting his hand on the backs of his female CBS News co-workers and unsnapping the clasps on their bras.

    It wasn't a secret. "I have done that," Wallace told Rolling Stone magazine in 1991. Such was the bawdy atmosphere on a program that depended on the swagger of its correspondents, who were known for their journalistic ferocity and fearlessness.

    Bad behavior in network news was not limited to CBS, and the workplace culture has generally improved over the decades that have passed. But the vigilance of the #MeToo movement is taking no prisoners in a business that has

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