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CBS News Bloodbath: A ModestProposal
By encinoman
CBS News staffers are freaked out that at least 90 positions will be eliminated in the latest budget ax-fest, including shutting the Moscow bureau and reducing Tel Aviv to one producer. They say it&;s not just fears about their own jobs; “One news executive said, ‘We were covering the news with one arm tied behind our back. Now we’re going to do it with two arms tied behind our back.’ ”
Modest proposal: They could put back 75 news people earning $150,000 plus $50,000 in benefits (sounds good to me at this point!) for the $15 million they pay Katie Couric for a year.
Will it happen? Naaaah.
UPDATE: (8:15PM Eastern Time)
Maybe it will happen. Drudge says the CBS natives are revolting&;
Tags: CBS-NEWS, journalism-cutbacks, Katie-Couric
This entry was posted on February 3, 2010 at 7:52 pm and is filed under CBS, CBS-NEWS, death-of-journalism.
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