CNN’s Stelter: I’d Be Surprised if Weinstein Was the Only One in Hollywood Treating Women This Way

‘Perhaps many are afraid to look at their own behavior’

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HARLOW: "Meryl Streep calls the sexual harassment, a misconduct by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein disgraceful. In a statement to the 'Huffington Post' she says in part, she’s 'appalled those of us who worked — work he championed like hers and those good and worthy causes he supported. The intrepid women who raised their choices to expose this abuse are our heroes.' Amen to that. Her reaction follows news that Weinstein had been fired from the company he cofounded; part of firing him his brother who sits on the board. Joining us now, Brian Stelter, CNN media correspondent and host of 'Reliable Sources'. Brian, thank you for being here. I think you and I  both reacted to it. It was in your news letter overnight, our colleague Jake Tapper who tweeted this, 'So the Miramax partners had no idea that this had been going on for decades and Weinstein paid all those settlements of his own personal money. It begs an important question."
STELTER: "Yeah."
HARLOW: "Are they outraged and did they fire him because they just found out or because we just found out?" 
STELTER: "Because we just found out. This is what this is now about, Poppy. Who knew what when. In the wake of the Roger Ailes' ouster from Fox News, a little more than a year ago, other executives also followed him out. It was found that others executives of Fox knew about the behavior. The question now in Hollywood is very similar. Who else knew, who looked the other way?"
HARLOW: "Right."
STELTER: "What agents, what executives looked the other way? There's a tweet jsut now, from Jessica Chastain the actress weighing in on this, saying, 'I’m sick of the media demanding only women speak up.' About harassing behavior by men. 'What about the men?' She says. 'Perhaps many are afraid to look at their own behavior.' That’s the other direction this story is heading, right is, are there other men, perhaps men of Weinstein's age, these so the called dinosaurs of Hollywood that were acting in these disgusting ways and are those going to come out? I -- I would be surprised if Harvey Weinstein was the only person in Hollywood --"
HARLOW: "Yeah."
STELTER: "-- who was treating actresses and assistants and models this way." 

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