CBS Board to Meet Monday to Consider Moonves' Fate, Set Investigation Plans

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

CBS Corp.’s board of directors will meet Monday to consider the fate of chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves and set the details on the investigation into allegations that Moonves sexually assaulted and threatened women over the years.

The board is expected to meet via teleconference around midday Eastern time. The meeting was already on the board’s schedule because CBS will release its second-quarter earnings on Thursday and is scheduled to hold its annual shareholders meeting on Friday in Pasadena, Calif. on Aug. 10.

The board members are sure to discuss the explosive allegations published last Friday by the New Yorker. It is believed that Moonves will face pressure from some members who have to date backed him to voluntarily take a leave of absence while the investigation is conducted. Sources say board members see that as preferable to the possibility of the board voting to suspend him. The allegations against the longtime chairman-CEO sent CBS’ stock price plummeting 6% on Friday.

Board members are also expected to try to settle on the law firm to be retained to conduct the investigation into the allegations against Moonves and claims in the New Yorker story that CBS management tolerates harassment and abusiveness in the broader culture of CBS, particularly within CBS News. A source familiar with the situation said board members are determined to ensure that the probe goes beyond the allegations against Moonves and into the story’s claims about the culture at CBS.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/cbs-board-to-meet-monday-to-consider-moonves-fate-set-investigation-plans/ar-BBLdQxp?li=BBnb7Kz

[LiberalFighter]

1. I wonder what happens to Julie?

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. Let me just say, I wish Ronan Farrow would expand his investigations to other industries

I realize that show business makes for juicy copy, but sexual harassment goes on EVERYWHERE. By focusing exclusively on Hollywood, Farrow is just feeding the right's "Hollywood is a bunch of left-wing perverts" meme.

[oberliner]

4. Do you know who his parents are?

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Of course

Just because his parents are Mia Farrow and Woody Allen (or maybe Frank Sinatra) doesn't mean he can't investigate other industries. He has in the past.

Don't get me wrong. I have no love for Les Moonves, but I think continuing the focus on Hollywood, especially on sexual harassment sins from decades ago, is counterproductive at this point. JMHO

[oberliner]

6. Couldn't disagree more with your take on this

With all due respect, this reckoning is long overdue in Hollywood, and I admire his work in helping to hold these people accountable, finally, for their actions.

[scarletwoman]

3. I won't shed any tears for Moonves - he's the one who crowed about how covering Trump

during the 2016 campaign was so great for his bottom line.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464

Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: "It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS"
11:26 AM PST 2/29/2016 by Paul Bond

Leslie Moonves can appreciate a Donald Trump candidacy.

Not that the CBS executive chairman and CEO might vote for the Republican presidential frontrunner, but he likes the ad money Trump and his competitors are bringing to the network.

"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS," he said of the presidential race.

Moonves called the campaign for president a "circus" full of "bomb throwing," and he hopes it continues.

[Scurrilous]

9. Yeah....

...@#$% that guy.

[gratuitous]

11. That's why this is so puzzling to me

Wouldn't a juicy scandal right in their own offices be damn good for CBS? Think of the circus! Think of the bomb throwing that could happen! Ad revenue would come streaming in.

Or is it somehow different when the people suffering are wealthy big shots instead of the hoi polloi?

[scarletwoman]

12. Well done.

[Blue_true]

7. Another company recently forced it's CEO to resign after such an investigation. nt

[Cha]

8. Moonves, the one who said the Perverted Fraud was

good for tv or some such shite. And now these allegations?

[oberliner]

10. "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS"

is the famous quote from him about Trump.