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CBS Deserves No Ovation as Moonves Drama Ends
Change is happening, but ambivalence toward the #MeToo movement remains.
Severance denied.
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CBS Corp. has made it official: Les Moonves won’t receive any of his $120 million severance. But that it was even a question, and took so long to reach this conclusion, are exactly why there’s a feeling of ambivalence toward the #MeToo movement.
“With regard to Mr. Moonves, we have determined that there are grounds to terminate for cause,” CBS wrote in a statement Monday evening. No kidding.