{"id":91784,"date":"2017-12-25T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T15:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=91784"},"modified":"2017-12-25T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T15:01:41","slug":"vice-media-proves-to-really-be-full-of-vice-young-turks-conduct-themselves-like-boys-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=91784","title":{"rendered":"<b>VICE Media<\/b> proves to really be full of vice, Young Turks conduct themselves like boy&#8217;s club"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Liberals Behind &#8220;The Young Turks&#8221; And Vice Apologize For Blatant Sexism<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>The founders of two liberal news outlets found themselves apologizing over sexist remarks and a &#8220;boy&#8217;s club&#8221; environment filled with sexual harassment. Cenk Uygur, creator and host of popular liberal news show,\u00a0<em>The Young Turks\u00a0<\/em>(TYT)<em>,\u00a0<\/em>apologized last week for a series of now-deleted blog and social media posts from the early 2000s, published by\u00a0<em>The Wrap.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/12\/23\/29286.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/12\/23\/29286.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCenk Uygur<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In one entry from 2000 entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020319052056\/http:\/\/www.youngturk.com:80\/rulesof.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rules of Dating<\/a>,&#8221; Uygur says of third dates: &#8220;<strong>If I haven&#8217;t felt your tits by then, things are not about to last much longer. In fact, if you don&#8217;t get back on track by the fourth date, you&#8217;re done.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>Uygur&#8217;s &#8220;Rule 2&#8221; of dating: &#8220;<strong>There must be orgasm by the fifth date,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>and &#8220;Rule 3&#8221; states &#8220;There must be sex by the second month of dating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>There are a lot of allowable exceptions to this rule, but they all involve orgasms<\/strong>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you slide if for unseen circumstances we haven&#8217;t gotten to see each other much,\u00a0<strong>and you have been providing me with some excellent orgasms in the meanwhile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But there are no foreseeable reasons why anyone would slip into the fourth month of dating without sex.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>But since you do provide a certain level of sexual satisfaction, I will give a requisite talking to you to see &#8220;what&#8217;s wrong.<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t give it up the date after &#8220;the talk,&#8221;\u00a0<strong>you&#8217;re done.\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;<em>Cenk Uygur<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In another post, after an apparent lack of sex, Uygur declared that &#8220;<strong>the genes of women are flawed<\/strong>&#8221; because they &#8220;do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s\u00a0quite a bit more\u00a0on Uygur&#8217;s past statements which have been compiled by journalist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2017\/12\/breaking-young-turks-host-cenk-uygurs-disturbing-sexist-racist-pro-rape-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cassandra Fairbanks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uygur&#8217;s defense to his old posts was to claim he was a was a different back then; &#8220;<strong>I had not yet matured and I was still a conservative who thought that stuff was politically incorrect and edgy<\/strong>. When you read it now, it looks really, honestly, ugly.&#8221;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020531115346\/http:\/\/www.youngturk.com:80\/polemic.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This post<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from January, 2000, however &#8211; in which Uygur slams conservative Pat Buchanan, suggests his ugliness was coming from the left.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/CassandraRules\/status\/944766420285575168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2017-12-24%2Fliberals-behind-young-turks-and-vice-apologize-blatant-sexism<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this week&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong><em>second<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>expos\u00e9,\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/23\/business\/media\/vice-sexual-harassment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0ousts left-leaning media outlet\u00a0<em>VICE\u00a0<\/em>for its &#8220;boy&#8217;s club&#8221; environment &#8211; from which allegations of sexual harassment and revenge were levied by over\u00a0<strong>two dozen women\u00a0<\/strong>who say they experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct at the company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CassandraRules\/status\/944766420285575168\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-explicit-timestamp=\"10:07 PM - Dec 23, 2017\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded is-deciderHtmlWhitespace\" cite=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CassandraRules\/status\/944766420285575168\" data-tweet-id=\"944766420285575168\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header u-cf\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-brand u-floatRight\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/12\/23\/viceguys.PNG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/12\/23\/viceguys_0.PNG\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVICE co-founders Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi (Reuters\/Mike Segar)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>VICE\u00a0<\/em>settled with four other women for sexual harassment or defamation as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An investigation by The New York Times has found\u00a0<strong>four settlements involving allegations of sexual harassment or defamation against Vice employees<\/strong>, including its current president. &#8211;<em>NYT<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a statement to The Times, CEO Shane Smith and co-founder Suroosh Alvi said \u201cfrom the top down,\u00a0<strong>we have failed as a company to create a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone, especially women, can feel respected and thrive,<\/strong>\u201d adding that a &#8220;boys club&#8221; culture at Vice had &#8220;fostered inappropriate behavior that permeated throughout the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Vice&#8217;s president, Andrew Creighton paid $135,000 to a former employee who was fired after she wouldn&#8217;t sleep with him, while earlier this year,\u00a0<em>VICE<\/em>\u00a0settled with former employee Martina Veltroni, who claimed that her supervisor retaliated against her after they had a sexual relationship. The supervisor, Jason Mojica &#8211; the former head of Vice News, was fired last month.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/12\/23\/girl%20with%20cat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/12\/23\/girl%20with%20cat_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJoanna Fuertes-Knight<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The $6 billion media company also reached a $24,000 settlement with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_uk\/article\/ex79am\/girl-eats-food-yule-log-trio-christmas-special\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London journalist<\/a>, Joanna Fuertes-Knight, who said she had been sexually harassed, and suffered racial and gender discrimination along with bullying. She claims that a Vice producer, Rhys James, made sexist statements to her &#8211; including asking whether or not she slept with black men, as well as the color of her nipples.<\/p>\n<p>Vice started out in 1994 as a punk magazine in Montreal, Canada, before growing to a multi-billion dollar multimedia company catering to millennials. Walt Disney owns an 18% stake, while private equity firm TPG invested $450 million in June, valuing the company at around $5.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-24\/liberals-behind-young-turks-and-vice-apologize-blatant-sexism\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-24\/liberals-behind-young-turks-and-vice-apologize-blatant-sexism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals Behind &#8220;The Young Turks&#8221; And Vice Apologize For Blatant Sexism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}