No, I can't get behind opinions like James Hibberd's, of The Hollywood Reporter, who say both sides are probably terrible, and they should just drop their lawsuit nonsense.
Justin Baldoni was accused of terrible things (sexual harassment among them) by Blake Lively, assisted by the New York Times, that had very real consequences on his livelihood and reputation:
-He lost control of his movie, It Ends With Us.
-He lost his podcast after co-host Liz Plank, who has connections to Ryan Reynolds, left The Man Enough Podcast.
-He was dropped from his agency, WME, due to pressure from Ryan Reynolds.
-He has lost projects, possibly including a Pac-Man movie he was supposed to be involved with.
-His reputation has been destroyed, his health has suffered due to the stress, and I could go on and on...
The idea that he should just sit back, drop the lawsuits, and tell the public, "I’m going to trust that I will eventually be vindicated," is insane, especially when the text messages and video clip clearly show Lively was not being honest about what occurred.
This is not just some embarrassing Hollywood rumor being spread. Accusations like this could take years to recover from--if he ever fully does.
"Not one of the 97 suspects we had gathered evidence against was charged with rape, and not one of the 26 young victims would see justice." Hard to read Maggie Oliver's testimony and not feel enraged that the cover-up of the pedophile rape gangs went on for so long.
Hamas' execution of six Palestinians has not been covered by:
1. NYT
2. WSJ
3. CNN
4. MSNBC
5. Al Jazeera
6. The Guardian
7. Washington Post
8. ABC News
9. CBS News
10. NBC News
11. USA Today
12. NPR
13. BBC
14. AP
15. Reuters
16. Politico
17. Axios
18. Newsweek
19. LA Times
20. @RealCandaceO
21. @zeteo_news + @mehdirhasan
22. @DropSiteNews
23. @FranceskAlbs
24. @UNRWA
25. @antonioguterres
And a whole lot more.
There was a time when Thanksgiving meant an occasion for counting our blessings. But, now that we have so many blessings that previous generations could hardly have dreamed about, we take them all for granted and are much more likely to count our grievances and the ways in which others have been unfair to us.