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Job Cuts at ABC Leave Workers Stunned and Downcast (LOL!)
NY Times ^ | Brian Stelter

Posted on 04/30/2010 8:51:31 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember

If “Good Morning America” or “World News” look any different in the coming weeks, it might be because ABC News is employing nearly 400 fewer people.

David Westin, president of ABC News, said this was “a difficult time for everybody” involved.

Brian Rooney, an ABC reporter in Los Angeles, was let go. Earlier this week, ABC News, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, largely completed one of the most drastic rounds of budget cutbacks at a television news operation in decades, affecting roughly a quarter of the staff. The cutbacks promise to change ABC both on- and off-camera.

For some employees, like the longtime Los Angeles correspondent Brian Rooney, Friday was their last day. Mr. Rooney said his contract expired at “exactly the moment when they needed to shed an enormous amount from the payroll.” In an e-mail message, he compared it to “standing looking straight up when the bomb dropped.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abc; abcnews; chortle; enemedia; layoffs; liberalmedia; lol; schadenfreude; snicker
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To: FormerACLUmember; All
I posted a vanity last week (I was visiting Phoenix on Friday when the mob of hispanics threw bottles, rocks and trash at police escorting a lone white guy out of the scene because he said he agreed with the legislation just passed, and it was all over the news...except that...oh wait, it wasn't.

I was appalled, and I dwelled on this for a few days...this was my reflection on how I viewed the coverage of the riot and the national state of affairs:

VANITY: Impressions of watching CBS News tonight from a non-television watcher.

61 posted on 04/30/2010 9:33:57 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: Lancey Howard

LOL, sad but so very, very true.


62 posted on 04/30/2010 9:34:38 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember ("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
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To: FormerACLUmember
Maybe if ABC was not such a propaganda machine, we would not have the job-annihillating Obama/democrat Great Depression II.

Bu-bu-but, ABC's been telling us for months that the economy is improving because of Obama's Stimulus. You know...the "recovery". They're always talking about it.

I don't understand how this could happen.

63 posted on 04/30/2010 9:34:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

64 posted on 04/30/2010 9:35:26 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: CodeToad

I would love to see everybody associated with the Democrat newsrooms lose their jobs, their homes, and their families. For the damage they have done to America they deserve nothing less.


65 posted on 04/30/2010 9:35:42 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Dallas59
"Leave Obama Alone!"


66 posted on 04/30/2010 9:37:53 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember ("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
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To: FormerACLUmember

hehehe...that is a GREAT pair of photographs to put together!


67 posted on 04/30/2010 9:38:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: Windflier
"Bu-bu-but, ABC's been telling us for months that the economy is improving because of Obama's Stimulus. You know...the "recovery". They're always talking about it."

ABC "News" touts the dark blue propaganda line but is living the red reality line on the employment graph.


68 posted on 04/30/2010 9:42:31 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember ("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
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To: FormerACLUmember

They can thank the politicians, big business and some individuals like Soros for that.

Dictators have no friends; only sacrifices.


69 posted on 04/30/2010 9:43:04 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

Oh yeah, you can include their own cheating and lying MSM.


70 posted on 04/30/2010 9:44:08 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Ladysmith

Oh, good. I thought I was the only one who could see Bozo.


71 posted on 04/30/2010 9:45:10 PM PDT by Politicalmom (A racist is a conservative who is winning an argument with a liberal.-FReeper Freespirited)
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To: FormerACLUmember
absolutely...
72 posted on 04/30/2010 9:46:41 PM PDT by Chode
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To: FormerACLUmember
Brian Rooney, an ABC reporter in Los Angeles, was let go.

Brian Rooney is the son of Andy Rooney of CBS, and the brother of Emily Rooney of WGBH Boston (PBS). I don't think he'll starve.

73 posted on 04/30/2010 9:47:09 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

LIBERAL press fallout. People are getting tired of your cheering zero on.


74 posted on 04/30/2010 9:47:17 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: Ladysmith

You’re not the only one. Looks like Bozo...and I’ve only had two Bloody Marys. :)


75 posted on 04/30/2010 9:49:06 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby ( I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. Yogi Berra)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Maybe they can find green jobs. Like mowing lawns.

Schadenfreude.


76 posted on 04/30/2010 9:49:54 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Kind of looks like a clown...


77 posted on 04/30/2010 9:50:41 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: FormerACLUmember

Why is she crying?


78 posted on 04/30/2010 9:51:13 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (With socialism you are never sure of the past.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

If these pressholes didn’t see how their support for dirty barry obama would lead to their own demise (careerwise), then they are stupider than I ever imagined.


79 posted on 04/30/2010 9:51:52 PM PDT by Vision Thing (He has a white house, and he wants to paint it black.)
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To: FormerACLUmember
Maybe if ABC was not such a propaganda machine, we would not have the job-annihillating Obama/democrat Great Depression II. It is such a shame that behavior has consequences.

I've actually come to think of them as the most fair of the lot. Jake Tapper asked Zero and his sock puppets quite a few embarrassing questions. Compared to NBC's David "Gregory" he is the HL Menken of the 21st century.

80 posted on 04/30/2010 9:52:03 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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