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"Everyone Is Shocked": CBS News Hit Hard by Layoffs
The Hollywood Reporter ^
| May 27, 2020
Posted on 05/27/2020 8:38:34 PM PDT by 11th_VA
"I’m really sorry," network president Susan Zirinsky said Wednesday on an all-staff Zoom meeting about the cuts. "There is not a person who won’t be missed."
CBS News was hit hard by a round of corporate cost-cutting that saw "a single-digit percentage" of the network's news staffers laid off, according to an estimate given by network president Susan Zirinsky during a Wednesday afternoon all-hands conference.
Based on the size of the news network — which totals more than 500 staffers — employees did the back-of-the-envelope math and estimated that about 50 staffers were cut, though the network has not said specifically how many were affected.
"Everyone is shocked," a CBS News staffer tells The Hollywood Reporter...
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; cbsnews; news; nonessential; whoops
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Me - not so much ...
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:38:34 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
BWA-HAHAHA!!!
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:39:12 PM PDT
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: 11th_VA
“There is not a person who won’t be missed.”
That’s some real hubris coming from an executive.
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:40:50 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bania
(Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
To: 11th_VA
I won’t miss any of the propagandists.
Like to see them all go broke.
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:41:05 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: 11th_VA
Now they get to see first hand what it’s like to lose their livelihood.
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:41:09 PM PDT
by
KittyKares
(Drain the Swamp)
To: KittyKares
Did the rich anchors give up any of their millions to keep more of the little guys... or is that something only the middle class has to do?
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:43:05 PM PDT
by
willyd
(I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:43:09 PM PDT
by
rhinohunter
(FAUCI MUST GO!!!)
To: 11th_VA
How's it feel to be "non-essential?" The M$M gets to lie in its very soiled bed.
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:43:16 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: 11th_VA
So now will there be less BS to C?
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:43:28 PM PDT
by
teletech
To: Kenny Bania
To: Monty22002
All of you will be missed ...
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:43:33 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
To: 11th_VA
“estimated that about 50 staffers were cut,”
there will be 50 more uber drivers in NYC..
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:43:35 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberal employees at every election since 2008 because I enjoy seeing them cry)
To: 11th_VA
To quote the great philosopher Harry Nilsson.... you’re breakin’ my heart, you’re tearin’ it apart, so f**k you!
To: KittyKares
Good. Now maybe the assorted liars will experience a tad of struggle . Maybe they will awaken to reality. Hahahaaaaaa
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:44:03 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: 11th_VA
The weird thing is; if they just practiced real journalism they would become the Highest Rated TV News Show In The World!
But they won't.
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:44:05 PM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:44:53 PM PDT
by
bitt
('Tyranny' is when you restrict the movement of healthy people.")
To: 11th_VA
Have any government employees been laid off? Furloughed? been asked to take reduced pay?
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:46:32 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: 11th_VA
I say this with due sympathy to any non-leftists at CBS, and there are likely some, but I couldn’t give a crap if they declared Chapter 11 right now and had to shutter the doors.
After what they have done.
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posted on
05/27/2020 8:48:02 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Thinking for yourself is hard work. But it is a lot easier than ignorance.)
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