Given the increasing number of media heavyweights being outed as sexual predators, this series of tweets from Jake Tapper explains a lot about how the problem was able to grow unchecked for so long:
In 1998, just as the Bill Clinton/Lewinsky scandal broke, i wrote in @wcp: "Does it need saying that too many of the producers, reporters, and editors who are currently busy putting him and Monica in stocks have done the same thing in just as tawdry ways?…"
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 21, 2017
2/ "…Feed a drink to any woman reporter—especially in TV—and she will spill all about her first job, about the fossilized proboscis monkey who pushed her up against the teleprompter, or the tan, dashing reporter who had breath like a warthog and hands like a squid."
-fin-— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 21, 2017
He wrote that in 1998. Almost 20 years ago.
3/ (I should note that I knew nothing beyond rumor. But as we learn seemingly every day, none of these stories of sexual misconduct in media were completely unknown to media bosses.)
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 21, 2017
They knew. They knew.