I’m gonna cut and paste this post, so I apologize; their own words are too perfect!
This is a quickie that I couldn’t pass up.
This is from Drudge’s flash Wednesday night:
COURIC FACES PAY CUT; DEEP LAYOFFS HIT CBSNEWS
Wed Feb 03 2010 09:11:21 ESTCBSNEWS anchorwoman and 60 MINUTES contributor Katie Couric faces a dramatic pay cut at the network, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
CBS boss Les Moonves is determined to save money and trim expenses -- from top to bottom -- at the former crown jewel of broadcasting. Couric, the highest paid TV news personality in history, commands over $14 million a year, plus bumps for non-EVENING NEWS appearances. But her salary is now in the direct line of fire, network insiders explain, and a populist backlash against Couric's cash is said to be forming inside the newsroom.
"She makes enough to pay 200 news reporters $75,000 a year!" demands a veteran producer. "It's complete insanity." The angry source continues: "We report with great enthusiasm how much bankers are making, how it is out of step with reality during a recession. Well, look at Katie!"
Couric's $300,000 a week paycheck has become the obsession of disgruntled CBS staff, just as deep layoffs rock the fishbowl.
Dozens of employees -- including staff members in D.C., San Francisco, Miami, London, Los Angeles and Moscow -- are being let go, the NEW YORK OBSERVER reports.
Lets follow that with these words from Dan Rather of the Throbbing Memo ©: “A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom,” Rather said in an interview yesterday afternoon. “This is not something just for journalists to be concerned about, and the loss of jobs and the loss of newspapers, and the diminution of the American press’ traditional role of being the watchdog on power. This is something every citizen should be concerned about.”
So, he wants a Presidential Commission to save Ye Olde Media: “The free press, as established by the First Amendment to the Constitution, ought to operate as a public trust, not solely as a money-making endeavor, Rather argued, and it’s time the government make an effort to ensure the survival of the free press. If not the government, he suggested, then an organization like the Carnegie Foundation should take it on. Without action, he predicted, America will lose its independent media.
“If we do nothing more than stand back and hope that innovation alone will solve this crisis,” he said, “then our best-trained journalists will lose their jobs.”
Hey Dan, maybe if you all in media weren’t shills and COMPLETE WHORES for the Democrat party and Progressives everywhere, you all would still be respected and in turn have viewers and readers and then be able to make a profit to stay in business. You all are not trusted and are soon going away. I cant wait for more “State Controlled Media”. Take your twisted view of the First Amendment and pound salt.
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Where’s my violin Dammit!
America has only ONE independent TV news outlet and it’s blowing the doors off the others (at least when it comes to cable news): Fox News.
Fox News’ ratings keep going dramatically up while MSNBC’s and CNN’s rating keep going dramatically down.
The MSM needs to wake up to why most of them are failing.
Gee ya mean Dan Rather was the good old days?
Let the government take over the media. What could possibly go wrong?
BIG sarc tag!!
“…then our best-trained journalists will lose their jobs.”
Best-trained? The schools of journalism and media studies have a curriculum based on Marx, Marcuse, Edward Said, NYT v. Sullivan, and an ethics class: “Do not give up a source, especially if you invented him,” and “corporations are evil.”
Wow – Forbes takes on honor killings.
No More Honor Killings
Good article.
Hey the Dow is doing great.
Do we realize that $14 million a year is more than $1 million a month? Wasn’t it Let-them-eat-cake Couric who’d tricked Sarah Palin, editing the interview to make her look red-neck dumb?
@ Nevergiveup:
Do not even say anything about that. Every time our president opens his mouth, the Dow tanks. I work for a bank and when he said he wanted to nail those evil banks, our stock tanked 10%+… Love watching my 401k drop like a rock.
From Dan
Without action, he predicted, America will lose its independent media.
What has free got to do with funding? My understanding of free means no controls.
How did CBS survive so long with such huge fat payckechs to the likes of Katie Couric? Is the media in the US monopolistic?
@ Ben_Dover:
Their definition is COMPLETE control. FREEDOM to report whatever they say.
Watch out for Net Neutrality.
A Nuclear Iran would not be in China’s interest, the White House said on Thursday, adding that the United States expected continued Chinese cooperation in talks over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.
Memo to White House: I got a hunch the Chicoms really don’t give a shit?
You want to know about journalism? Rent The Front Page, the superb early-30s film by (former newsman) Ben Hecht, from his Broadway play, starring Pat O’Brien and Adolphe Menjou.
This will show you the griminess, the ideological slants, the gangsters which used to be routinely employed by newspapers as “circulation sluggers,” the sensationalism, etc., etc.
The idea that newspapers and other news organizations were “objective” is a post-WWII falsehood now swallowed as received wisdom. Newsmen, for that matter, used to be ill-paid high school grads (maybe) who hoped to escape the reporter’s life to earn real money in screenwriting or advertising.
The big-money megaphones of today are not newsmen or -women.
@ MikeA:
I saw an article in Human Events that Arthur Laffer (of ‘Laffer Curve’ fame) is predicting a huge drop in the markets next year. One that’ll be even bigger than the one we saw a year or two ago.
It’ll be Bush’s fault, of course.
@ MikeA:
I also work for a bank! Care to drop me a line and discuss which one offline?
@ mfhorn:
Linky
Link to Laffer article
I’m proud to say that never in my life have I watched Katie Couric anchor the CBS Evening News. I had no clue who the anchor was.
Dinosaur media indeed.
Chuck Johnson, Race Detective, declined comment.
@ snork:
What about the Green Lizard?
I got a good chuckle today, with a rare visit to Chuckie World. He’s saying the Ben Folds song “Philosophy” helped him through a lot of tough times. Awww!
Like the last two stanzas:
Now you take this all for granted
You take the mortar, block, and glass
And you forget the speech that moved the stone
But it’s really not that you can’t see
The forest for the trees
You’ve never been out in the woods alone
So you can laugh all you want to
But I’ve got my philosophy
(It keeps my feet on the ground)
And I love you you’re my friend
But you got no philosophy
Now it’s time for this song to end
It’s so Chuckie, that he says y’all don’t have any philosophy, but he does, and that’s why he stays so sane. LOL!
Lots of self-pity in the past couple of days. Wonder what’s going on, that’s got him so blue-green. The fact that “It’s Over?”
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed off President Barack Obama’s decision not to attend an annual summit with European leaders while stressing Thursday the importance of Russia as a European partner.
Hey you Euro Trash wanted him. You got him. Now enjoy the ride.( Unfortunetatly we are all in the caboos
with them)
@ garycooper:
I learned a couple of months ago that the Ben Folds song ‘Brick’ dealt with abortion.
The last time I watched her was in 1975 at Yorktown High School, what a set of wheels, but what a screech and attitude, niether of which needed a megaphone to project.
When I meet my wife and found out she watched GMA, we sat down and had a little talk about facile apperances and agendas.
courage
Nevergiveup wrote:
Neither Merkel nor Sarkozy were happy with the election of Obama as president of the USA. It was your choice in the States.
Thank you for your attention
Euro Trash
Doppelganger wrote:
A very nice English beer.
He best work was when she showed us the insides of her large intestine. It’s been all downhill since then
mfhorn wrote:
I wonder if said prediction will be dependent on how much, if any, power the Demo☭rats retain after the November elections?
Bumr50 wrote:
Really? I didn’t know that. I’m not a huge fan of the guy, but I have his “Suburbs” CD, which is pretty good.
God bless Fox News, God Bless Talk radio. God Bless the blogosphere.
The truth gets out. The MSM dies a little more every day
Irony alert, I just read taht the “Netroots Nation” (formerly Yearly KosConvention) will be held in Las Vegas this year.
@ snowcrash:
Yeah, and Президент Оба́ма says we can’t blow money in LV, but they can??
Hypocrite.
RE: The Laffer article
…well, that’s discouraging.
We’ve got hard times in Michigan, baby. I was kind of hoping against hope for some kind of rebound. For the first time, I’m actually considering moving to another state.
Let’s see – Katie Couric makes $15,000,000 but CBS has to lay off workers and close several bureaus, including Moscow……but it’s the Bankers and Wall Street guys who are being paid too much money and are therefore killing Obama’s great jobs recovery????
snowcrash wrote:
I hope they have it during NASCAR weekend. Surrounded by gun-totin’, Tony Stewart lovin’ rednecks. I’ll open a diaper concession.
The irony is great. CBS news is doing stories about CEO’s making outrageous salaries. And Couric is reading her teleprompter!
I’m a capitalist, and if you want to pay her and she’s worth it, go for it. More power to her. I’d like to make her salary and I wouldn’t refuse it.
my problem though is that the same people like Couric happily take big money and fly on private jets, and drive SUV’s and they demonize others for the same thing.
garycooper wrote:
I made that decision six years ago and moved to AZ. What part of Meecheegan?
garycooper wrote:
But in 5 years, you’ll be blown away!
Carolina Girl wrote:
I wonder why that scrunt doesn’t want to spread her wealth around.
lol
Like ALL Companies, people always feel they are underpaid. Not because they are worth more, but because they want more.
That feeling grows when you see people in your own company making gobs more cash for their job, especially when that job isn’t too different from your own.
Welcome to the Private Sector, reporters at CBS. Some people make more money than others and if that is what they negotiated with the big bosses, then that is what they get paid.
I know… I know… you had all those professors in college telling you that as a journalist you could make the world a better place by forming your stories to push your agenda……. but they were professors that taught journalism…. the only people LESS involved in the ‘real world’ than you.
Doppelganger wrote:
Gross. I mean her personality, not the medical procedure.
So, are they going to cut her salary back to $10M/yr? That’s an outrage!
@ Doppelganger:
That’s because they want to be the only ones doing that.
It is a class thing. Keep the proles walking to work or riding public transportation, so the Party Members can have the big cars and private jets and large homes with large ‘carbon footprints’
garycooper wrote:
Maybe he finally got a peek under the burka of un-Mata Hari?
garycooper wrote:
Sam Riddle, Monica Conyers, Kwame, Dedan Milton, Kwame Kenyatta, etc etc etc.
The comedy is so outrageous, you’d miss it!
Guggi wrote:
You all bitched and moaned about that Cowboy Bush? When Russia invades, don’t call us?
Every once in awhile, I encounter a liberal staffer who says “the lawyers get this” or “the lawyers get that and look how much money they make.” Always pissed off.
There’s a solution for that, Missy. We call it LAW SCHOOL. If you want to be paid like a lawyer and get the perks of a lawyer, you’ll need to attend.
One night, we were working overtime on a brief at 3:00 a.m., and one of our lawyers asked me why I never went to law school (I took the LSAT and had actually been accepted at Yale Law). I just looked at him, sipped my coffee and said “which one of us is actually being PAID to be here right now?”
Anyone following the Jim Treacher hit and run in DC last night episode?
UPDATE 2:05pm:
The Daily Caller has been told by federal law enforcement sources that the Secret Service was not involved, and is working to confirm that driver of the vehicle which struck Jim Treacher was a State Department security employee.
.
Carrying forth with the hypocrisy of the media, I do find it more than ironic when I hear Katie Couric speaking harshly of AIG bonuses or $1,000.00 hammers.
I know Katie isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but does anyone ever think she gives thought to the fact that her abysmal failure and bloated salary apparently not much different when scrutinized?
Guggi wrote:
are you sure:
- Europe, too, celebrates Obama
No, I think you’re wrong….
More of Europe celebrating Obama.
Here’s more
And one last one. (this one comes out and says that Europe caught ‘Obamamania’)
So….. are you wrong, or willfully misleading?
Is Specter actually pushing reconciliation on FOX? What an ass hole
The new media is good for your health too!
The comments will get your heart rate up without ever leaving your chair.///
20:59 Iranian envoy in Moscow says Russia assures it will deliver long-range missiles (Reuters)
Hey Obama how is that “reset” button working so far?
Nevergiveup wrote:
There, fixed that for ya!
garycooper wrote:
Amazon must be out of donuts.Hope this pos follows in the path of Katie and Msnbc and cnn. I’ve never seen anything as hateful as they are about people they don’t like. That venom will bite you in the arse everytime.
I wrote up the Dan Rather part yesterday.
@ Nevergiveup:
1. Not Merkel, not Sarkozy, not me.
2. May I remind you that the American voters were so fed up with Bush (not me, but I’m not an American, I’m Euro Trash) that you have now a democratic Congress and a democratic president ? And this is was hardly ever the fault of the Europeans, was it ?
Russia is probably no longer in the position to invade Europe.
Президент Оба́ма takes North Korea off the list of terrorist-sponsoring states.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Has this man gone off the deep end…or stepped on the accelerator?
Eliana wrote:
Their answer: get rid of FOX News.
Guggi wrote:
Well I was mostly saying that tongue in cheek. But Europe’s demeaning attitude toward President Bush was not helpful one bit. Different European Countries took turns trying to undermine the foreign Policy of the United States at one time or another. Yes it was Americans that elected Obama ( not me ). And I hope those who did are happy now????
@ RoboMonkey:
Exactly.
Competing in the private (corporate) sector and needing to make good business decisions is such a drag to them. It’s just so unfair.
@ Grimcargo:
Hey Grimcargo, i thought you might like this song
Eliana wrote:
Many of these “News” shows would be off the air if there were not powerful political interests backing them
@ Macker:
I don’t even know how to respond to Obama’s horrid decision making ability anymore – both domestic and foreign. For a time, I thought perhaps Obama was just misguided and naive. But the pattern of insanity speaks of far worse.
I actually fear for my country and for its survival as we have known it. Worse, I see nobody in politics that gives me a great deal of confidence in the ability to restore it. If We The People don’t change our apathy soon…we may find ourselves in a situation we never dreamed.
garycooper wrote:
Move here to Virginia – it’s still American.
vapig wrote:
Yeah but it’s gonna be a snowed in part of America tomorrow from what I am reading????
are you sure:
Are you serious ? What should have Sarkozy have written ? *F*ck off, you as*hole* ? This letter is called ‘diplomacy’.
One link leads to girls in Pakistan. Pakistan is in Europe ?
And the other links don’t show Merkel or Sarkozy celebrating O.’s victory.
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Nevergiveup wrote:
Who’s afraid of a little snow?
Nevergiveup wrote:
I don’t thing Russia is their biggest concern these days. Their problem is more of a muzzie nature…..
RoboMonkey wrote:
All my patients
vapig wrote:
Yeah probably, but that is when the Big Bad Bear might just decide to move in?
@ Guggi:
This comment goes to @LanceKates #51
Does anybody watch network news anymore? I have not for at least 10 years now, and nobody I know watches them either. It is Fox or (sadly) CNN which people turn to nowadays.
tunnelrat wrote:
Well MSNBC for a good laugh every now and then
No one wants what the msm is hauling. They are paid huge money to spew lies. This is insulting. No one wants to feel manipulated.
It is like any business, we will go where we get can get what we want. Not just junk these bastards are peddling. It is good that they are squirming. Especially the stupid hack Katie Couric who purposefully did a hatchet job on Sarah Palin. That was not journalism.
Today’s Arabic lesson
tunnelrat wrote:
I haven’t watched TV news (broadcast or cable) in decades, or read the local papers in years.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Yeah – but you know we get here when it snows? SNOW DAYS!!! That’s right! Paid days off! Bet you don’t get that up there in Michigan, now do you?
/on a side note – yes – they are telling us that a blizzard is coming. I’ve already blown out my bosses calendar for tomorrow and expect to be shooed out of the building at the first site of a snowflake. The governor has already declared a state of emergency – and the sun is still shining. Well, it’s 30 degrees out, but the sun is shining. since it just snowed day before yesterday it’s blinding outside!
tunnelrat wrote:
Plenty of people. Think of the dummy with the Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker still on their car going 55 in the left lane of the freeway.
for many Americans, this is their only source of news.
but their numbers are static if not declining as emerge from the embryonic fluid of ignorance and take advantage of unbiased sources of information
@ tanker on the horizon:
The Arabic transaltion of Akbar Zeb to “biggest d**k” has overwhelmed Saudi officials who have refused to allow his post there.
What, are the Saudis feeling insecure about their own equipment?
Nevergiveup wrote:
@ Nevergiveup:
That’s better
– thank you and now we can agree. It was disgusting how some (very important) European countries acted against Bush (France with Chirac, Germany with Schroeder, to name only two). Bush was the culmination of all the anti-Americanism in European societies. It was hysterical.
I am teh Akbar Zeb !
Nevergiveup wrote:
They don’t like their own muzzies – why would they want Europes?
@ tanker on the horizon:
Now that’s some funny sh!t. lol.
From Hannity
Barack and the democrats , in DC
A-R-G-U-I-N-G
Firt come polls
Than come elections
Then come major democrat defections
@ Doppelganger:
Zero has been reassuring the Dems that he (with his The One charm and influence over the American people) will single-handedly make sure that they get re-elected no matter what dumb things they do in his name.
Zero did campaign in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts, after all — and look what happened, right?
Ooops!
watch this
vapig wrote:
Well I’m in NJ not Michigan, but hey I love snow days. I’m scooting out of here early tomorrow because I have to be on Base in CT by Friday Evening.
Hannity just said, Scott Brown just tweeted that he has been officially certified and is now sworn in.
Yay.
Doppelganger wrote:
You got a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing there. I seriously doubt that the driver of the’82 Volvo wagon with the Kerry-Edward sticker next to the Grateful Dead bears sticker would be different if Fox were the only news on the air. I think the only members of the public being influenced are more likely to be driving ’99 Malibus with stickers that say “shiite happens”.
@ taxfreekiller:
I’m watching.
@ chickadee:
Great news!
Go, Scott!!
@ snork:
Me, too.
.
Now what?
doing a little tickleing of the feet
$14 million a year? No wonder CBS News is getting royally screwed! It’s bad enough they have an overhyped poor excuse for a journalist in Katie Couric at the anchor spot, but pay her $14 million a year?! And more for non-related spots on the network?! The traditional media is just like the government: they squander too much money, and in all the wrong coffers.
Let’s see if these liberal folks kick me off their board for daring to post a letter from a 95-year-old Navy Veteran to Президент Оба́ма! Here’s the thread:
Hidden Frontier (if you can stomach their version of Star Trek…one of their moderators lives, breathes, eats, drinks, sleeps, pisses, and shits Star Trek 24/7)
Eliana wrote:
Zero is toxic now. No matter how he tries to pretend otherwise, the Narcissist in Chief has lost his mojo. And all these dems know it.
@ Doppelganger:
3.8 TRILLION UPDINGS!
@ tanker on the horizon:
LOL! Aren’t they all, metaphorically speaking?
@91 chickadee wrote:
A.F.T. (About Freakin’ Time)
@ Nevergiveup:
I actually watched them for a short time during the Scott Brown election, and it was indeed funny. They are truly a propaganda machine for the Democrat party (and not a very good one, at that).
@ taxfreekiller:
Ya, I get it.
@98 Macker wrote:
“Sorry, but the Current Events forum is for Hidden Frontier Productions community members only.”
Oh, God Lord. Remember that complete loser at BVoAF who called himself Captain Kirk or something??
fun it is
Is this the future of “The Perky One”….??
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w222/RidesAPaleHorse/POLITICAL/couricsign2.jpg
back to the water gaps
more rain yesterday and today
later
@ chickadee:
Zero wanted to be the new Messiah. when do we crucify him?
Another very funny item, Scott Brown got Teddys old “plush” office space too!
“Several Senate sources tell CNN that the Senate Rules Committee, which assigns office space, decided to give Brown the office space as a matter of convenience.
Because of his seniority, Kennedy had one of the most coveted office suites in the Senate complex. It is located in the Russell building, down the hall from the Rotunda, and has balconies that overlook the Capitol
chickadee wrote:
Oh, please, please, pretty please Mr. Zero, come campaign for Patty Murray.
6.0 Quake off the coast of CA. 229 miles North North west of San Fran
Depth of 6.29 miles
@ snowcrash:
They are courting him.
Hmm, let’s see… I think I’m at least 10% as attractive and well spoken as Katie Couric, and I’m a good reader, so I think CBS would have a much better value highering me for 1% of her salary.
@ Iron Fist:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t2Ry7I5DNuQ/Sffx3uFNWuI/AAAAAAAAD8s/6JHKWxfCnlM/s400/Obama+crucified.jpg
@ SciFiGuy:
Tsunami?
@ snowcrash:
Those the same balconies that Kennedy would stand at and pretend to say “Let them eat cake!”?
SciFiGuy wrote:
Obama blames Bush
http://peaceblimp.uservoice.com/forums/39876-what-should-the-blimp-say-
You guys seen this? Fun with hippies.
@ vagabond trader:
Scary…
@ Nikis Knight:
I like to think of Teddy, full of regret thinking, “I coulda been a contender”.
“She makes enough to pay 200 news reporters $75,000 a year!” demands a veteran producer. “It’s complete insanity.” The angry source continues: “We report with great enthusiasm how much bankers are making, how it is out of step with reality during a recession. Well, look at Katie!”
I don’t watch Katie, never have never will, but I betch she enjoyed reporting on the banker’s making too much money. It’s fun watching the “news hounds” turn on her.
That’s a 14.2 Couric turd…
/South Psrk