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TV insiders warn the industry still fails to address Russell Brand’s misogyny, highlighting persistent cultural sexism that persists despite past controversies.
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Misogyny and sexism of Russell Brand case have not gone away, say TV insiders
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Concerns remain that media industry is still failing to confront troubling behaviourEven within the culture of casual misogyny and sexism that pervaded the TV world in the mid-noughties, Naomi Harvey and her colleagues concluded they needed to do something about Russell Brand.Harvey was one of a team of researchers tasked with finding fans of Big Brother, Channel 4’s reality TV juggernaut, to appear on the discussion show Big Brother’s Big Mouth, hosted by Brand. Continue reading...
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