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Katie Couric Gets Some of Her Own Class Warfare Medicine for $14m Salary
Newsbusters ^
| 2/3/10
| Lachlan Markay
Posted on 02/03/2010 9:17:24 AM PST by Nachum
Katie Couric may be getting a taste of her own populist medicine. When the Dow hit 10,000 last October, she (and other network news personalities) used the opportunity to bemoan massive payments to Wall Street bankers. But now the populist sentiment has turned on her. She faces dramatic pay cuts as CBS News downsizes
Couric, shown in a, er, file photo at right, "makes enough to pay 200 news reporters $75,000 a year! It's complete insanity," one CBS News insider told the Drudge Report. "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!"
The employee was referring to Couric's roughly $14 million annual salary, the highest in network news. That salary may be cut dramatically in the face of massive layoffs at CBS News branches in Washington, San Francisco, Miami, London, Los Angeles and Moscow
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; class; classwarfare; couric; katie; millionaires; warfare
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Cue the Bob Dylan "How does it feel?"....
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:17:26 AM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Imagine taking a $14m haircut and nobody watches.
To: Senator Goldwater
Well, I’ll give her this: She’s got really nice legs.
Talent?
Katie used to be the beltway reporter for WRC-TV in DC. I don’t think her talent has moved too far from the starting line.
As Joe Paterno says: “You either get better or you get worse.”
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:22:25 AM PST
by
RexBeach
("Those are my principles...if you don't like them, I have others." Groucho Marx)
To: Nachum
Stand down Katie, you are safe. All of Obama's dogs are safe when it comes to class warfare.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:24:41 AM PST
by
missnry
(The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
To: RexBeach
GO------Bama!
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:25:21 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Don't fall for the Global Warming hysteria.)
To: RexBeach
I haven’t watched WRC since they made Jim Vance the anchor.
And that was 35 years ago.
To: Nachum
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:30:51 AM PST
by
CORedneck
To: Nachum
Well with KC fatcat salary to be cut she becomes one of the rich that gets a taxcut. (a non GWB one at that). So KC made a whole lot more when Bush was POTUS.
PS. Note to leftist lunatics...less rich people = less taxes paid. No fuzzy math here! We middle classers will get soaked by Obamanomics.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:31:05 AM PST
by
tflabo
(Restore the Republic)
To: Senator Goldwater
PLUS hit her with higher fed taxes and higher NY taxes and higher NYC taxes. I wonder if she will still be so positive about Rats.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:31:32 AM PST
by
Oldexpat
To: missnry
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:32:13 AM PST
by
cweese
(Hook 'em Horns!!!)
To: Oldexpat
WHoopi Goldberg was ranting about this exact same thing last year too.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:33:09 AM PST
by
tflabo
(Restore the Republic)
To: Nachum
Dang! I'm gonna haf ta cut down (hick) on da booze.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:34:41 AM PST
by
Slyfox
To: RexBeach
Well, Ill give her this: Shes got really nice legs. I hear she gives good live colonoscopy as well.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:37:47 AM PST
by
BOBTHENAILER
( EPA will rule your life)
To: Nachum
To: Nachum
I'm Katie Couric and I'm a Cougar. I'm hungry, bring me a Jonas Brother or Zach Efron.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:52:28 AM PST
by
Harley
(Life is Tough, But It's a Lot Tougher When You're a Liberal. Stop Global Whining Now.)
To: Harley
Maybe she gets all that money because she was “perky” with Les Moonves.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:55:16 AM PST
by
ZULU
(God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
To: Nachum
Since I dumped TV in ‘97, I only know her as the woman who did a hatchet job on Palin.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:58:22 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(The US today: Revelation 18:4)
To: RobRoy
At only 7 mill per year Katie is still 100X above her pay grade.
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posted on
02/03/2010 10:07:58 AM PST
by
TYVets
(Let's Roll!!! The leadership of the GOP has no spine and no guts, but we conservatives do)
To: Harley
$50.00 for the evening -—tops.
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posted on
02/03/2010 10:10:01 AM PST
by
Venturer
To: Nachum
I hope CBS honors her contract and continues to pay her the $14 million/year. Honoring her contract will continue to irritate the others in the news division and will force CBS to continue paying premium prices for a truly inferior product.
Her contract is up in a year and the price can be renegotiated then. Maybe to about $2000 per week or so...
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