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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by dagw on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:26AM (#16993048)
because one member brought a lecherous boor to some of their events

Despite that being the part of the scandal that kicked off the investigation and has been getting the most focus, it's not the core of the scandal. The other parts of the scandal is that a venue owned by the above mentioned "lecherous boor" in question (who is married to an academy member) had possibly been getting improper funding from the Academy and that he might have leaked previous winners to his friends in advance.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by SiempreViernes on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:07AM (#16993397)
I say the core of the scandal is that the Academy has been protecting its members and him from outside consequences even though it has been clear from a long time he was behaving improperly and even when their own investigation recommended that they should file charges for corruption a majority seems to have resisted taking action.
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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by dagw on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:23AM (#16993473)
Agreed. Had the case simply been that the spouse of one of the committee members was accused of sexual harassment then it would never have ended up like this. It's the financial aspect and the academies continued refusal to deal with the problem that caused this. Sexual harassment was mainly the catalyst.
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