Harvey Weinstein remains in rehab undergoing treatment for a sex addiction while his peers expel him from the Motion Picture Academy and the Producers Guild and his company crumbles financially. Meanwhile, NBC execs deny claims they quashed a reporter’s work on the story and football commentator jokes on Sunday Night Football.
Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter: “Academy expels Harvey Weinstein”
Matthew Belloni & Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter: “Bob Weinstein gets emotional on ‘depraved’ Harvey, saving the company and his ‘waking nightmare’”
Ryan Faughnder & David Ng, Los Angeles Times: “As woes escalate for Harvey Weinstein’s former company, potential buyers begin to circle”
THR Staff, The Hollywood Reporter: “Harvey Weinstein’s attorney exits without filing threatened N.Y. Times lawsuit”
Kim Masters, Columbia Journalism Review: “Fighting ‘the Gawker effect’ in the wake of Weinstein”
Claudia Rosenbaum, BuzzFeed: “Lisa Bloom knows she made ‘a huge colossal mistake’ in Harvey Weinstein”
Leslie Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter: “David O. Russell’s $160M TWC-produced drama dead at Amazon”
Francesca Guiliani-Hoffman, CNN: “’Reporting protects women’: Why the New York Times’ Jodi Kantor took on Harvey Weinstein”
NBC’s quashed Weinstein story
Yashar Ali & Lydia Polgreen, Huffington Post: “How top NBC executives quashed the bombshell Harvey Weinstein story”
Paul Fahri, Washington Post: “Why did NBC News let the Weinstein blockbuster get away? Once again, questions mount.”
Michael Calderone, POLITICO: “NBC: We didn’t sit on Weinstein story”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “NBC president responds to Weinstein backlash with mumbo jumbo”
Brian Flood, Fox News: “NBC slammed for passing on Harvey Weinstein sex harassment expose”
Ronan Farrow, The Hollywood Reporter: "My father, Woody Allen, and the danger of questions unasked"
Meanwhile, on NBC…
Meanwhile, Al Michaels shows how he hasn't ever perfected comedy on NBC pic.twitter.com/T8GMwwkqW3 — Rick Strom (@RickStrom) October 16, 2017
Chris Butcher, Heavy.com: “WATCH: “Al Michaels says Giants had a worse week than Harvey Weinstein”
Jackie Bamberger, Yahoo Sports: “Al Michaels makes cringe-worthy Harvey Weinstein joke on ‘Sunday Night Football’”
#MeToo takes over social media
Libby-Jane Charleston, Huffington Post: “Why I’m not joining the #MeToo hashtag even though I was sexually harassed”
Alanna Vagianos, Huffington Post: “The ‘Me Too’ campaign was created by a black woman 10 years ago”
Lianna Brinded, Quartz: “The unexpected, paradigm-shifting power of #MeToo”
Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic: “The movement of #MeToo”
Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune: “#MeToo campaign proves scope of sexual harassment, flaw in Mayim Bialik’s op-ed”
New social media policies at NYT
The New York Times: “The Times issues social media guidelines for the newsroom”
Callum Borchers, Washington Post: “Score one for Kellyanne Conway. The New York Times plans to toughen its Twitter policy.”
Joshua Benton, Nieman Lab: “The New York Times released new staff social media guidelines, so phew, thankfully that’s settled”
Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch: “Extracting bias atTechCrunch”
Jackie Wettles, CNN: “New York Times updates social media rules: Careful with your Trump tweets”
Trump’s call to take away licenses
Tali Arbel, Associated Press: “President Trump is talking about taking away new network’s licenses. Can he do that?”
Harper Neidig, The Hill: “House dems want hearing on Trump media license threats”
Indira Lakshmanan, Poynter: “’Frankly disgusting:’ Trump’s latest slavo against a free press”
Jackie Wattles, CNN: “FCC commissioner on Trump’s media threats: ‘History won’t be kind to silence’”
KMOX simulcast in Las Vegas
Joe Holleman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “KMOXled portion of news coverage of shooting for Las Vegas radio station”
Being on tv is hard!
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