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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 behaviour Even 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.

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