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CNN's annual revenue is somewhere around $2 billion, and half of that is profit. I don't think that's going to dent the budget much.

Turner paid the remaining staff of NASCAR.com somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 million (total) in severance to go away at the end of 2012. Didn't even offer us a chance to apply for any other openings. The HR lady -- who was "transitioned" before we were -- said the company would rather hire all new people than retrain existing staff.

In fact, Turner turned right around and bought Bleacher Report for $175 million with the money they saved on NASCAR and PGA Tour. Despite having an entire staff of editors and writers already in Atlanta. So goes the TV industry.

Especially when you consider just one failed pilot episode of a sit-com will set the network back $2 million. Something like Game of Thrones was $10 million just to shoot the pilot.

The people in the corner offices at a major network make seven-figure decisions all the time, because if you happen to find that one big ratings hit, that covers the cost for all the stuff that didn't. And if you don't, you get "transitioned" as well.

 

He was paid to say what Zucker thought. And maybe you think Zucker was right about everything. But that was Stelter's role.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/18/hogan-cox-moore-governor/

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has ratcheted up the rhetoric about GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox, describing him earlier this week as mentally unstable.
Hogan, who has previously called Cox a “Q-Anon whack job,” described the GOP nominee as “a nut” during a recent radio interview and reiterated his prediction that Cox has “no chance whatsoever” of being elected as Maryland’s governor in November.
“He’s not, in my opinion, mentally stable,” Hogan, who is term-limited, said Wednesday on WGMD radio, based on the Eastern Shore. “He wanted to hang my friend, Mike Pence, and took three busloads of people to the Capitol.”

 

I haven’t watched CNN in ten years or so, I was making a comment about the disparity in pay between TV and other mediums.

 

Gotta be at least +5 or +6 to overcome R gerrymandering. But the season is young.

 

Retire you lying punk

 

She - as in Texas - puts me to shame.

 

She's talking about that illustrated version that was being banned.