The New Yorker’s account of sexual harassment allegations against CBS’s chief executive, Leslie Moonves, has many disturbing echoes of what has become a long list of predatory behavior by corporate executives. CBS’s board knew — or should have known — about potential problems with Mr. Moonves’s past behavior long before the news broke last week. They intensified after Charlie Rose, a host of “CBS This Morning,” was fired in November. By December, CBS executives had been told that reporters for The Times and The Wall Street Journal were asking around about sexual-harassment allegations involving Mr. Moonves, according to a person close to CBS. By early this year, CBS officials had spoken to a number of reporters about the allegations, this person said.

Source: New York Times July 31, 2018 09:00 UTC