More Harassment Allegations Emerge At CBS

(NPR) The board at CBS has a lot to fret about these days with multiple sexual misconduct allegations and settlements involving top executives and stars. With all of this turmoil even the future of CBS seems unsettled. Theres talk of merger with another company...youve got to acknowledge The New York Times story just this week about a secret settlement between CBS network and the actress Eliza Dushku who was - she had a part that was on several episodes of the hit series Bull on CBS a primetime show. And she said that she complained about repeated remarks made by the star of the show Michael Weatherly that she felt in a sense violated. She brought it up felt dismissed and they phased her character out even though they had planned a several-season arc for her. She received a $9.5 million payout that apparently would have been roughly equivalent to what she would have received had she stayed on the show for those years.... And of course this comes after the so many stories of misconduct by Les Moonves former head of CBS and moreover his effort to hide those action with what amounts to bribes....the question on CBSs plate at the moment is whether or not its supposed to pay the $120 million that it might appear that Les Moonves is due as extraordinary as that figure is for his service and for what his contract stipulates in departing from CBS as its chairman. He was forced out earlier this year. In fact the very actions to - as investigators claim the law firms doing this claim - to mislead to deceive to lie to the investigators and in fact to erase evidence may well be caused for the board to step in and to void or to diminish that payment. It would be quite an insult added to the injury that a number of women have said that Les Moonves did if he were to be paid off such a huge amount for being fired effectively as a result of the public awareness of what he had done to them. .