It would be easy to construe these as isolated cases of innovation and industry change, but I believe they represent much more: a mutation in capitalism itself.
Goldman is worried American regulators might construe the media furore as marketing and publicity, which would make it in contravention of securities laws.
He actually spent as many words apologizing to "many women" for telling the joke as he did on the joke itself (more if you construe his warning of "politically incorrect jokes" as part of the apology).