Late last fall, the #MeToo movement shifted from Hollywood to the media. Matt Lauer was taken down, at long last. Garrison Keillor was taken down too. But the one who surprised me was Charlie Rose. Last November, the Washington Post published their investigative report on how Rose was a serial abuser and sexual harasser of women, going back decades. Rose was fired from all of his jobs, on CBS This Morning, 60 Minutes and PBS. Months passed and it felt like Rose might be one of the first outed-predators to attempt a comeback. But the WaPo just dropped a second investigative piece on Rose’s behavior within the media ranks. They spoke to 27 WOMEN who were harassed and assaulted by Rose. You can read the full WaPo story here.

Incidents of sexual misconduct by Charlie Rose were far more numerous than previously known, according to a new investigation by The Washington Post, which also found three occasions over a period of 30 years in which CBS managers were warned of his conduct toward women at the network.

An additional 27 women — 14 CBS News employees and 13 who worked with him elsewhere — said Rose sexually harassed them. Concerns about Rose’s behavior were flagged to managers at the network as early as 1986 and as recently as April 2017, when Rose was co-anchor of “CBS This Morning,” according to multiple people with firsthand knowledge of the conversations.

Rose’s response to the new allegations was delivered in a one-sentence email: “Your story is unfair and inaccurate.”

[From The Washington Post]

Many victims would only agree to speak anonymously, but several spoke on the record using their names. WaPo details all of their stories, from Rose exposing himself to female colleagues in the office to Rose treating young interns like they were merely hired to service him sexually. One former intern, Corrina Collins, described a work trip she took with Rose in 2013 where he encouraged her to drink wine and then began to grope her on the plane, then insisted they work alone in his hotel room, which is where he propositioned her. Collins ended up reporting all of this to the producer on Rose’s PBS show where she was told that Rose is just “harmless.” And on and on – many women never reported Rose to anyone at CBS or PBS, but some did. And executives and producers just looked the other way. Time’s Up on all of these a–holes.

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