Also from the article:
“However shocking to the pink-slipped employees, this latest round of mass firings comes as no surprise to insiders at The Blaze and Mercury Radio Arts, which laid off dozens of employees last May on a day referred to internally as Black Monday, around the same time that Beck was purchasing a private jetliner and a $200,000 Maybach sedan.”
Oh my, what a guy that Beck is.
I worked for a guy like that once, long ago. He had ME fire a young clerical-level single mother - who was doing her job just fine - because of ‘cutbacks.’ As I was giving her her walking papers he got into the limo that took him to his private plane that flew him to his hacienda in Cabo San Lucas. Soon thereafter I quit.
-—the same time that Beck was purchasing a private jetliner
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had no clue Beck could afford a “jetliner” much less it’s upkeep
was this being maintained by Cruz PACs or does he earn that much?
In his defense, I won’t defend a lot of Beck post-Fox years, he invested a ton of money in this network, and he also has a tremendously large earnings from his radio contract. Radio and probably his Fox contract primarily funded the existence of The Blaze. If he chooses to buy expensive toys with his own money, that’s good with me. It’s his money and the business’s lack of revenue success does not require he dump more of his own money into it.
I didn’t even realize MB had resurrected the Maybach label after killing it off a few years ago when they ran out of drug dealers and rappers to sell it to.
The new one looks like something one would expect from Chrysler.
Interesting - hadn't heard that one ... but not surprising.