![]() It is worth recalling that the most powerful person at CBS at the time was Les Moonves, whom multiple women have accused of sexual harassment, dating back decades. (Weatherly maintains that when he suggested a threesome, he was ad-libbing a joke in character.) ![]() When he demonstrated that it was fine with him to harass one of his co-stars, everyone around him heard the message loud and clear. In Dushku’s case, on the set of Bull, Weatherly - who has worked at CBS for 15 years and is well-liked - was extremely powerful. The person at the top of a company determines what the workplace culture will look like. This is the kind of pattern that can enable a culture of corporate harassment, in miniature. She says that after Weatherly suggested in front of the crew that Dushku have a threesome with him and another cast member, a crew member came up to her, laughing, and said, “I’m with Bull.” Then he suggested that he would also not mind having a threesome with Dushku. When someone at the top makes it clear that sexual harassment is okay by him, those below him follow suitĪccording to Dushku, Weatherly’s behavior toward her seemed to give Bull crew members tacit permission to harass her. In a statement to the Times, CBS affirmed its commitment to “a culture defined by a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace,” but allowed that Dushku’s experience demonstrates that “our work is far from done.”Īpparently to that end, CBS asked a team of outside lawyers to investigate “cultural issues at all levels of CBS.” But the Times obtained a draft of their findings - and what it reports about the details of Dushku’s case suggest that a culture of sexual harassment is baked into CBS, on all levels. But then, the Times says, star Michael Weatherly made a series of off-color comments about her: commenting on her legs, making jokes about a threesome, remarking in front of the crew that he was going to spank her, inviting her into his “rape van.” ( In a statement to the Times, Weatherly says he was ad-libbing jokes about his lines in the script and is “mortified” to have offended Dushku.) After Dushku complained about Weatherly’s comments, plans to make her a regular on the show evaporated.ĬBS eventually paid Dushku a $9.5 million settlement, a sum the network says is roughly what she would have earned over the course of four seasons of Bull, had she become a series regular on the show. She guest-starred in three episodes, and according to documents obtained by the Times, there were plans to make her a series regular. The New York Times reports that this January, CBS paid out a major sexual harassment settlement to actress Eliza Dushku - and what the details of the case suggest about CBS’s culture are damning.ĭushku was reportedly harassed on the set of the CBS legal procedural Bull. It really is true that everything that is searchable on the Internet stays out there unless it's put up and taken back down very quickly between scans.Just a few months after CBS ousted its CEO, Les Moonves, following accusations of sexual harassment, the network is facing a new sexual harassment scandal. This is already reality: The Library of Congress takes a "snapshot" of the entire web every two weeks and adds it to its archives. Incidentally, at one point Bull comments that the government may even search and view the whole web from time to time. ![]() ![]() I think choosing the jury with questions pertaining to this right would have worked much better. The jury selection process, which is the foundation of the show, was glossed over. I think the episode would have been far better if they reduced the issues about whether the client was guilty and did more to bring up the issue of the right to privacy. But it felt like it was more about whether the protagonists believed their clients were guilty of the crime than the case which was the right to privacy. But does this right exist when the things they're protecting needs to be part of a major criminal case: a bombing with many casualties including fatalities? That's the question this show is allegedly about. The fourth amendment gives them the right to privacy. ![]() Since the US judicial system decided a company is a person, they must fall under the same bill of rights as a human. This episode was about the right to privacy. ![]()
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