There are good men at Fox News. It's time to hear from them.

I know many men at Fox, and most are good, decent people. Many are also good family men who have wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. Many are men of faith and moral conviction. These men have huge platforms.

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And all of that is why, if we care about changing a culture of sexual harassment and the unfair treatment of women, their voices would be so incredibly powerful.

Imagine if the male anchors, hosts and contributors issued a statement calling for the immediate end of sexual harassment at Fox. Or if just one host used 20 seconds of his on air time to condemn sexual harassment in the workplace. Or if any threatened to quit if one more allegation surfaced.

This, to me, is why talk from the top of a “culture change” rings hollow. Excising two prominent figures, years after allegations were made known and after millions were spent to keep them in power, is not a culture change. It’s a business decision. That advertisers were fleeing and Ofcome, the British media regulator, is deciding whether to allow 21st Century Fox to buy its Sky TV network, was likely far more a motivator than any ethical or moral sense of outrage.

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