[abb]

Lots of loud dinosaur bellowing today. Sounds like a death rattle to me.

Within two years, network news as we know it today will cease to exist...

[abb]

Raoul's First Law of Journalism
BIAS = LAYOFFS

[Ron in Acreage]

My heart bleeds. Don't dare ask the mutimillion dollar anchors to take a cut to keep their job. It reminds me of the union workers who will strike for 3 months to get a dollar an hour raise. It'll take 3 years to break even on the wages they lost while striking. They would rather close the business than stay at their current pay. Demand higher wages than the company can afford. Force them out of business. Then bitch about being unemployed. Brilliant!

[ken5050]

From a pure PR standpoint, if Brian Williams, who makes $10 mill/year, I believe, announced that he was voluntarily taking a 20% pay cut..well, he'd be a God inside NBC..encourage/force others to do the same, and the network suits could make him whole by giving him increased perks..

[Cheburashka]

NBC News can slash its budget many ways, but don't ask anchors and correspondents to give up the Benjamins, advises ex-CBS News chief Andrew Heyward.

"It's very bad for morale. People take it very personally. When you actually pay somebody less, it tends to have a disproportionate psychological impact on the employee, in my experience."
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We don't want people with bad morale around.

So fire them. Hire new people at reasonable salaries. Tell them if they produce ratings they will get pay raises. If they don't they will be fired. Repeat until the situation improves.

The lefties don't seem to understand the concept of reward for success.

[Tribune7]

If they had fired Dan Rather 5, 10, 15 years ago and replaced him with someone at one-fifth his salary, CBS would not be in 7th place in LA.

[theBuckwheat]

The MSM loves to bring forth stories about "sustainability". It is a delightful concept that is handy for leftists to use in bashing all the normal features and functions of our modern, prosperous, capitalist, free enterprise society.

Don't like drilling for oil? Imply we shouldn't drill for any because it is not "sustainable".

Don't like mining for gold? Imply we shouldn't mine anything because it is not "sustainable".

Well "sustainability" comes to the the MSM in the Iron Law of economics: you must make a profit or you die. MSM deplores how "cut throat", and "greedy" capitalists are. They are only that because the Iron Laws of economics do not give any points for feelings, intent, or fears. Either something is "sustainable" or it is not. If it is not, then it declines or even goes out of business. If it is, then it grows and prospers. Either it is sustainable or not.

In some ways our prosperity, and we are indeed very prosperous, does not serve us well. It allows people to hide in the often tax-advantaged ivory towers where they can be insulated from economic reality. They come to believe that money grows on trees. That good intentions trump hard facts, and that people must be denied freedom of choice in news because they might be told truth that is just not politically correct.

Or they come to believe that covering a topic with 90 negative stories and 10 positive ones is "honest", and "not biased".

Farewell MSM. Self-selection is now at work. The people who think the same as you will flock to you and tell you what a great job you are doing. That is, the few in the MSM who are left. The rest of us? We'll flock to Free Republic and other places where the real news is examined in the light of reality.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Gee, I've seen no polls asking if the viewing audience would support salary cuts/layoffs for MSM anchors/journalists.