Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Emma Hinchliffe here again to close out the week. Janet Jackson finally gets into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, we look at the details of Nancy Pelosi’s deal to become speaker, and another harassment story out of CBS shows us just how deep the network’s problems go. Have a wonderful weekend. EVERYONE'S TALKING [bs_bullet_primary] That's some Bull . The news at CBS just keeps on coming. Following the behavior and ousters of Les Moonves, Jeff Fager, and Charlie Rose, a new story shows how a hostile culture can trickle down from the very top to infect all aspects of an organization. Case in point: the TV show Bull , apparently the 10th most-watched entertainment program on network TV--and one where an actress asking a co-star to stop making demeaning comments led to what seems to be a cut-and-dried instance of retaliation. Eliza Dushku--who you might know as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Missy in Bring It On --joined the show for three episodes with plans explicitly in the works to make her a series regular. The show's lead, NCIS 's Michael Weatherly, quickly made Dushku uncomfortable: "Here come legs," he said once when she wore a suit, and he'd take her to his "rape van," he said as an ad-lib while filming. (Weatherly has said his comments were ill-advised jokes.) But Dushku approached Weatherly about his comments--and days later, she was written off the show. Dushku won $9.5 million in a
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