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Massive Cuts at ABC News; 300-400 Positions to be Eliminated
TV Newser ^ | Feb. 23, 2010 | Chris Ariens

Posted on 02/23/2010 12:19:58 PM PST by Beaten Valve

ABC News has begun the process of eliminating 300 to 400 positions at the news division by asking employees to participate in a buyout of their services.

In a move that has been rumored for weeks, and coming on the heels of layoffs at CBS News, ABC's cuts are a combination of union and non-union jobs affecting all areas of ABC News.

Developing...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcdisneynews; abcnews; dinomedia; dinosaurmedia; dnctalkingpoints; layoffs; liberalmedia; msm; pravdamedia
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To: Beaten Valve

181 posted on 02/23/2010 10:46:24 PM PST by americanophile (Good luck Team USA! Bring home the gold!)
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To: Beaten Valve

the MSM like common dung beetles....wander aimlessly, head in the sand....moving backward...while pushing their crap and hoping it sticks to something.....

182 posted on 02/24/2010 4:24:13 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: bolobaby
According to this libtard I work with, it is because Americans aren’t interested in the truth.

You have one of those too?

183 posted on 02/24/2010 6:01:53 AM PST by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: OldDeckHand

I thought The View was their news agency.


184 posted on 02/24/2010 7:28:23 AM PST by Karliner ("Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."DDE)
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To: bolobaby; Anima Mundi; ebiskit; TenthAmendmentChampion; Obadiah; Mind-numbed Robot; A.Hun; ...
According to this libtard I work with, it is because Americans aren’t interested in the truth.

Sigh . . .

Tell him/her that

Journalism and Objectivity


185 posted on 02/24/2010 7:55:06 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ( DRAFT PALIN)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

BTTT


186 posted on 02/24/2010 8:20:43 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Thanks for the ping/post/link. Good to see you c_I_c. BUMP for a great thread!


187 posted on 02/24/2010 8:31:24 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Beaten Valve
I was interested to read the statement by David Westin on ABC News about the forthcoming cuts in staff. A memo stated "But all of us are good reporters. We can see that our society is in the midst of change". He sounded very up beat on the ability of the media to get in ahead of this change.

In the early hours I picked up a radio station and it was fading somewhat. An author was talking of his book regarding the triangle in the presidential election. He had it that Hilary Clinton and John McCain were aghast at a complete newcomer, without much of a record of service. This was Barack Obama, suddenly gaining an immense coverage. The author claimed the McCain camp were apprehensive of McCain turning on Obama with such vitriol, it would turn off the electorate. Now came this telling statement.

McCain had been the "media darling," now the new "media darling," was Barack Obama.

I asked myself, "is this journalism? ". Surely the massive war rooms of the candidates were there for that. Surely the meetings of supporters and gatherings are there for that. I concluded that the media, or much of it, seems to be like a skittish adolescent. Waiting to be titillated by some flight of fancy, it is a free country to do that.

The most vital thing was completely missed by them. That being "who really is Barack Obama?" They told us enough about the then Governor Sarah Palin. No more needs to be said by me.

188 posted on 02/24/2010 8:40:47 AM PST by Peter Libra
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ABC News has begun the process of eliminating 300 to 400 positions at the news division by asking employees to participate in a buyout of their services.


OR : "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"


189 posted on 02/24/2010 9:12:10 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: americanophile


"That meteor coming at us looks big and is very noisy. Shouldn't we be concerned?"
190 posted on 02/24/2010 9:15:44 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Beaten Valve
Good thing John Stossel jumped ship, eh?
191 posted on 02/25/2010 10:40:46 PM PST by T Lady (The MSM: Pravda West)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

*DOUBLE PING*


192 posted on 02/25/2010 10:43:36 PM PST by T Lady (The MSM: Pravda West)
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To: ozarkgirl

Imagine how Fox news would grow if they covered everything they should cover, they are light years ahead of the others but even Fox is not doing the whole job.


193 posted on 02/26/2010 12:16:42 PM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: ElPatriota

That picture makes me want to cry...she looks just like my Border Collie used to look when I let her out at night, she died recently.


194 posted on 02/26/2010 12:29:56 PM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: RipSawyer
..That picture makes me want to cry...she looks just like my Border Collie...

I hope you are not serious... About your dog dying. If so, I'm sorry.

195 posted on 02/26/2010 12:53:42 PM PST by ElPatriota (The SILENCE of the Catholic Church (...Actually I'm hearing MORE from RCC now! ....) ** DEAFENING **)
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