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And Then No One on the CBS Earnings Call Asked Les Moonves About Harassment

Americans have been conditioned to draw dangerous lines: money on the one side, morality on the other.
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They talked about money. They talked about a job well done. They talked about the happy fact that CBS had, over the previous quarter, surpassed, just by a hair, analysts’ expectations for profit and revenue.

What was not discussed, on , was the into the network’s CEO, Les Moonves, and other members of its executive team. Left unsaid were the allegations that Moonves, in his many years as the leader of the network, had harassed and intimidated several women,

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