Posted on 01/29/2016 9:20:33 PM PST by drewh
Kraig Kitchin will stay with the company, but resigned from the top job after friction with fellow Beck executive Jonathan Schreiber. A ‘mass exodus’ of staff may follow.
In what knowledgeable observers say is a sign of increasing turmoil in Glenn Beck’s troubled media empire, Beck’s longtime mentor and corporate executive, Kraig Kitchin, has quit as CEO of The Blaze.
Kitchin’s replacement, Stewart Padveen, a digital startup entrepreneur who joined Beck’s company last summer, will be the fourth leader of The Blaze since late 2014.
Kitchin, 54, who took over operations of Beck’s conservative-leaning subscription digital and cable television enterprise last June—after two previous CEOs abruptly left in the space of six months—is resigning along with two other senior executives: Jeremy Price, director of advertising sales, and Liz Julis, director of marketing.
Both are based in New York, 1,500 miles removed from corporate headquarters in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas.
Several other key employees, including at least two senior producers based in The Blaze’s shrinking New York operation, are expected to follow them out the door.
A source close to the situation predicted a “mass exodus†from the New York studios, which are housed in a largely unoccupied 35,000 square-foot space at Midtown Manhattan’s Bryant Park, previously rented by Yahoo, under a 10-year lease costing Beck’s privately held company an estimated $2 million a year.
Kitchin—who co-founded Premiere Radio Networks three decades ago and has worked with personalities as diverse as Rush Limbaugh, Ryan Seacrest, Whoopi Goldberg, and Beck—tried to put the best face on his resignation in a company-wide email sent out Thursday night.
He described his apparently self-imposed demotion as a result of outside business obligations.
“Our organization--The Blaze--deserves and needs an exclusively focused leader and that’s something I cannot provide, given existing commitments I choose to honor,†Kitchin wrote, adding that “I’m not leaving this company. I’ll stay with The Blaze, working every day as the Interim Head of Sales with a focus on finding the right person for that position, assisting in the transition, on advertiser growth, program development, and industry relations.â€
I don’t think glen deck has ever publicly said that he was bipolar. I think he is but I don’t he believes he thinks that he is bipolar.
I don’t think glen deck has ever publicly said that he was bipolar. I think he is but I don’t he believes he thinks that he is bipolar.
“LOL !!! Trump was right, yet again ...”
Beck is obsessed with Trump. This I believe will be his demise. I try to catch Rush at noon and usually hear the last 20-30 minutes of Beck. It’s all Trump bashing.
Just for fun go to The Blaze homepage and do a page search on Trump and then do a search on Cruz; at the time of this posting the count was 49 Trump to 13 Cruz.
Just like WND. Haven’t gone there in 15 years. As somebody who did some testing it makes me wonder what they think their users have. I’m at about medium level and those places choke my machine under Firefox. Of course then some say, you should be using Chrome.
HMMMmmm...
In conclusion let us summarize this grand key, these "Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet", for our salvation depends on them.
1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works.
3. The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet.
4. The prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time.
6. The prophet does not have to say "Thus Saith the Lord," to give us scripture.
7. The prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The prophet is not limited by men's reasoning.
9. The prophet can receive revelation on any matter, temporal or spiritual.
10. The prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich.
12. The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency - the highest quorum in the Church.
14. The prophet and the presidency - the living prophet and the First Presidency - follow them and be blessed - reject them and suffer.
I testify that these fourteen fundamentals in following the living prophet are true. If we want to know how well we stand with the Lord then let us ask ourselves how well we stand with His mortal captain - how close do our lives harmonize with the Lord's anointed - the living Prophet - President of the Church, and with the Quorum of the First Presidency.
Ezra Taft Benson
(Address given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University) http://www.lds.org/liahona/1981/06/fourteen-fundamentals-in-following-the-prophet?lang=eng
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"All of this should be conveyed without having priesthood leaders focus upon intimate matters which are a part of husband and wife relationships. Skillful interviewing and counseling can occur without discussion of clinical details by placing firm responsibility on individual members of the Church to put their lives in order before exercising the privilege of entering a house of the Lord. The First Presidency has interpreted oral sex as constituting an unnatural, impure, or unholy practice. If a person is engaged in a practice which troubles him enough to ask about it, he should discontinue it."
- Official Declaration of the First Presidency of the Church, January 5th, 1982
"Prophets anciently and today condemn masturbation. It induces feelings of guilt and shame. It is detrimental to spirituality. It indicates slavery to the flesh, not that mastery of it and the growth toward godhood which is the object of our mortal life. Our modern prophet has indicated that no young man should be called on a mission who is not free from this practice. What is more, it too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation-practiced with another person of the same sex and thence into total homosexuality...."
"Among the most common sexual sins our young people commit are necking and petting. Not only do these improper relations often lead to fornication, [unwed] pregnancy, and abortions - all ugly sins - but in and of themselves they are pernicious evils, and it is often difficult for youth to distinguish where one ends and another begins. They awaken lust and stir evil thoughts and sex desires. They are but parts of the whole family of related sins and indiscretions. Almost like twins, 'petting' and fornication are alike."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, page 65
"Also far-reaching is the effect of the loss of chastity. Once given or taken or stolen it can never be regained. Even in a forced contact such as rape or incest, the injured one is greatly outraged. If she has not cooperated and contributed to the foul deed, she is of course in a more favorable position. There is no condemnation where there is no voluntary participation. It is better to die in defending one's virtue than to live having lost it without a struggle."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, page 196
"And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth." (Genesis 4:9-14.) That was true of murder. It is also true of illicit sex, which, of course, includes all petting, fornication, adultery, homosexual acts, and all other perversions. The Lord may say to offenders, as He did to Cain, "What hast thou done?" The children thus conceived make damning charges against you; the companions who have been frustrated and violated condemn you; the body that has been defiled cries out against you; the spirit which has been dwarfed convicts you. You will have difficulty throughout the ages in totally forgiving yourself."
-Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, "Love Versus Lust", BYU Speech January 5, 1965. Often-used quote still used today in LDS seminary classes.
"I do not find in the Bible the modern terms "petting" nor "homosexuality," yet I found numerous scriptures which forbade such acts under by whatever names they might be called. I could not find the term "homosexuality," but I did find numerous places where the Lord condemned such a practice with such vigor that even the death penalty was assessed."
- Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, "Love Versus Lust", BYU Speech January 5, 1965
"If adultery or fornication justified the death penalty in the old days, and still in Christ's day, is the sin any less today because the laws of the land do not assess the death penalty for it? Is the act less grievous? There must be a washing, a purging, a changing of attitudes, a correcting of appraisals, a strengthening toward self-mastery. There must be many prayers, and volumes of tears. There must be an inner conviction giving to the sin its full diabolical weight. There must be increased devotion and much thought and study. And this takes energy and time and often is accompanied with sore embarrassment, heavy deprivations and deep trials, even if indeed one is not excommunicated from the Church, losing all spiritual blessings."
-Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, Page 155
"How like the mistletoe is immorality. The killer plant starts with a sticky sweet berry. Little indiscretions are the berries -- indiscretions like sex thoughts sex discussions, passionate kissing, pornography. The leaves and little twigs are masturbation and necking and such, growing with every exercise. The full-grown plant is petting and sex looseness. It confounds, frustrates, and destroys like the parasite if it is not cut out and destroyed, for, in time it robs the tree, bleeds its life, and leaves it barren and dry; and, strangely enough, the parasite dies with its host."
- Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, General Conference Address, April 1, 1967.
a 10-year lease costing Becks privately held company an estimated $2 million a year
It's been said that many folks on FR are obsessed over SOMETHING...
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13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency - the highest quorum in the Church.
— There’s the big one. Very few major churches are properly guided by God. In fact, I suspect that none of them are. Not that I’m anywhere close to being perfect.
They are scholarly pursuits rather than spiritual, often poisoned by atheist-professor influences.
Others are foolishly self-alienating, such as claiming that Yaweigh is pronounced ‘Jehova’ and taking pride in such self-alienation.
Others are ‘Six Day Wonder’ zealots that forget the sun was not created on the first day. [Days of Genesis not solar.]
But God bless them — most have the good sense to know their limitations.
You mean like spending close to $60K on George Washington's compass?
I appreciate the good that Beck has done in the past, but working at his place has to be like working in an insane asylum where the patients run the place...
I don't even understand how some FReepers post articles from The Blaze on this site. I refuse to follow those links.
Ghostery and a host of other blockers stop it however you are right, it will hang up. And if you have the add blockers you can't read the comments, let alone post their.
I tried to become a subscriber via one of his $1 offers and it failed, you must need a secret decoder ring or something to sign in, I have tried multiple times and I am computer savvy and every time it bahmbs. How the heck does he get subscribers with that...
Sounds like an episode made for Marcus Lemonis of The Profit.
Yes they are in pain, bad backs etc. He has a great platform aka the Blaze, so step aside, become a CEO in name only, work part time, give overall direction and let someone who knows what the hell they are doing to run it, or loose it all to Chapter 11.
IMHO he got side tracked with his museum, separate projects such as solar research etc. Perhaps that would have been good to do when his net worth had a lot more zeros, not starting out. Liquidity, liquidity, liquidity, read "American Icon" about Ford's turn around and their former CFO Lewis Booth emphasis on it.
I'd love to see how much cash on hand "The Blaze" has, my guess is their in deeper doo-doo than we know...
The local radio station I normally listen to has cut Beck’s show back an hour, from 9 to 12 to 10 to 12. I wasn’t paying attention when they did that so I don’t know why. Regardless, I can’t listen to it any more and after the “silly season”, I don’t plan on going back ... he’s jumped one shark too many & become unhinged. Very sad, but he’s no longer sucking the joy out of my mornings.
‘IMHO he got side tracked with his museum, separate projects such as solar research etc.’
Oh that stuff! Well at least that can be sold. He might be able to promote one heck of a bidding war.
Beck could have it all if he disciplines himself. He was poised to be the next media titan. Still could be.
Back to basics — humor!
As one who was at one time (pre-Barton) fairly regular in Beck’s programming and consulted regularly (sometimes three times a week), in retrospect I think (among other things) found out how quickly you can burn through money in the entertainment industry. I have been to his TX facility several times. It is MASSIVE, a full time movie sound stage. Although Beck only rents (owns?) 1/3 of the full facility, it still has more space than can reasonably be used by an outfit his size. It reminds me of Preston Tucker with an aircraft plant to build 50 cars.
Anyway, Joel Cheatwood, his video head, quit over a year ago, as did his chief of staff, his top advertising guy, and two other top people. This is always the sign of an organization in trouble.
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