The HBO CEO and chairman, Casey Bloys, has apologised for tasking employees with creating fake Twitter accounts to attack TV critics.
Bloys was responding to a bombshell Rolling Stone report that referenced alleged text messages between himself and Kathleen McCaffrey, HBO’s senior vice-president of drama programming. In six conversations, the pair discussed a “secret army” that could respond to TV critics who gave HBO shows a negative review.
I have personally seen the internal memos of multiple large companies from the 1970’s in which the executive wrote some version of “while the dangers of asbestos are clear, changing to another material would not help meet the financial goals of our asbestos product lines at this time.” It’s capitalism itself that corrupts these people.
Had plenty of friends from law school that seemed like decent people, now off defending and lobbying for insurance companies and energy companies.