CNN insults #MeToo, provides happy ending for Toobin

But, undoubtedly, CNN's contracts – like all cable news and broadcast news contracts – have something called a morality clause. Those clauses basically say that one's personal conduct can be considered for termination if he or she acts in what is deemed to be an inappropriate or reckless manner, thereby reflecting poorly on the network as a whole. Given the national headlines and ridicule Toobin's conduct has generated, the whole "reflects poorly on the network" thing would seem to apply here. And two questions to ask: How do his female colleagues at CNN feel about this? If Toobin held any other lower-level job besides "Chief Legal Analyst," would he have kept his job? The second question is rhetorical, of course. Because it was just recently that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) was released from the network for comments deemed controversial about a lack of influence of Native American culture in American society.
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