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    Despite outrage over harassment, we've been here before

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Oct 23, 2017 6 minutes

    Last year, Amazon Studios chief Roy Price decided to cancel "Good Girls Revolt" barely a month after its debut. Set in 1969, the partially fact-based drama followed a group of women journalists fighting for equal opportunity and fending off inappropriate bosses in the workplace; one of the real-life figures it portrayed was Eleanor Holmes Norton, who helped write the first government regulations against sexual harassment.

    On Tuesday, Price resigned from Amazon Studios amid his own sexual harassment scandal.

    Even in the dizzying two-week period brought about by a devastating pair of reports in the New York Times and New Yorker alleging decades of sexual harassment and assault by Oscar-winning film producer Harvey Weinstein, it was a jaw-dropping event.

    Weinstein's fall was swift and precipitous; since the original Oct. 5 story, he has been fired from his company, dumped by his wife, expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild and is

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