The Great Media Purge of 2017: rules

[Sarpedon]

We are in the midst of a long-overdue reckoning for an industry where sexual exploitation was long considered to be a perk.

As the pins continue to fall, I am now curious, how do we, as consumers, react to these events? Do we stop consuming all products from the guilty parties, so that no residuals go back to them? What about all the non-guilty people involved? Won't that cost them their residuals? Do we trust the industry to make the necessary steps? What is there to do?

 

[Underseer]

Society is going through a change. A good one.

I don't see that we need to boycott any media outlets unless one resists the current changes and refuses to take steps against harassers and the like. Even FOX News got rid of Ailes and O'Reilly, so I don't see that happening. If anyone was going to protect sexual predators, it would have been them.

 

[KeepTalking]

I am going to continue to enjoy the same entertainment I enjoy now, and not really worry about the sexual malfeasance of those who helped to produce it. For all I know, the man who invented film did so in order to take surreptitious pictures of nude underage girls that he would then use to blackmail them into having sex with him. Such a revelation would not cause me to eschew all media produced on film.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Advertisers, any company that does business with them and doesn't want their name associated should be punishment enough to cause a good housecleaning.

 

[TSwizzle]

I doubt any of this will impact my viewing and besides, a lot of the decision have been taken out of my hands. Netflix have purged CK from their service, not that I watched him anyway but the point is distributors and content providers are making the decision in a lot of cases. But I do hope that the entertainment industry clean house.