The sexual harassment problem plaguing Fox News is still there and is intensifying; this is not good.
They’ve done nothing to reprimand members of the Fox & Friends team, and now Bill O’Reilly has popped up on the radar, and not in a good way. One F&F cast member featured prominently in a sexual harassment lawsuit and helped to establish a hostile work environment, as I wrote about back in 2016.
Now, Bill O’Reilly has been settling lawsuits with accusers who have come forward to the tune of $10 million of his own money, and $3 million of the network’s money.
If he was using just his own money to settle with women who are after him, I’d be willing to accept his explanation that he’s a target for lawsuits, and that he was trying to protect his kids from being humiliated. But the fact that the network is contributing to payoffs to these women tells me there’s much more to the story than what has been revealed.
Fox management needs to deal severely with these situations. It’s already cost them a lot of credibility with their conservative audience, at least $60 million to settle the Gretchen Carlson lawsuit and millions more to cover up whatever O’Reilly’s doing, and they’ll lose a lot more if they don’t start making some examples out of these people and enforcing sexual harassment laws on and off the set.
Workplace sexual harassment is ILLEGAL.
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