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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That’s a lot of Courics.
“$50.00 for the evening -tops.”
I would demand that she pay me much more.
>>>$50.00 for the evening -tops.<<<
I’m ok with that. It would be worth it to see the look on her face when I said “I’m done. Time to hit the road tramp.”
Hey, even the Tom Brady’s of the world have to restructure their contracts sometimes for the sake of the team.
Where’s that pic I saw on another thread of Dubya holding the world’s smallest violin?
She is the Juliet Prowse of Munchkinland.
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