Posted on 07/01/2005 10:08:00 AM PDT by Ravi
Following up on yesterday's rumors of CNN layoffs, and subsequent reports that the rumors were exaggerated, here's what a few tipsters and e-mailers have said:
> "One look at our electronic bulletin board on Inews, and there's nothing BUT goodbye's in there...With movements, shiftings, and rearranging (including those fired) the staffing in Atlanta is down CONSIDERABLY. For example, in just the last couple of months, we've lost six line producer positions and three executive producer positions. And word from managers is 'we're not through yet.'"
> "It's not just the layoffs, schedules are being completely retooled and several people were demoted, and that's just here at Headline News."
> "You'd need both hands to count the HLN losses. Others kept on were being demoted and will now do what they had been doing for years for less money. Rumors of layoffs are always exaggerated. These were fairly significant."
> The two EP's who were fired on Wednesday "were both escorted out of the building. Both had been there combined almost twenty years," an e-mailer says.
That's life. The group where I work has been letting people go right and left, including myself. But I've already got several interviews lined up for gigs that will pay even more. Life goes on.
Back in 1980 or so when CNN began, those of us in the media here in Washington, DC, liberals and conservatives alike, referred to CNN as "Chicken Noodle News."
Next!
And ya know, CNN will go out of buiness before they'll admit they're doing something wrong.
I wish I could get laid off.
Talk about boring, Aaron Brown is the best sleep aid.
You know the logical end result? These news outlets will demand to be treated like PBS. I mean, hey, it can't be that nobody wants what they are selling, that the public now has the smarts and the Internet, and has no interest in their lies. No, it has to be that real, unbiased (liberal) journalism can't survive on its own in todays polluted, Bush-run news environment. In the interest of "fairness", the alphabet networks are going to need billions of our tax dollars just to "level the playing field".
Nothing seems to work for CNN. First, they tried outsourcing by hiring Christine Annanpour, that failed, then they tried re-manufactured news stories with different endings, that failed, then they hired lots of losers to run the place, that failed,and we all know what a winner Ted (the big mouth of the South)Turner is, so I guess CNN should go broke and take TimeWarner down with it!! I won't be sad to see it go under.
Their reporting is biased against all things American.
Most people just wanna get laid. :)
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