We won the election. Sorry, but we don't need you anymore. Sucks to be you. Courage.
Posted on 11/10/2006 12:29:48 PM PST by LdSentinal
It's a bad day at NBC," an insider says.
A tipster reports a "big purge at Dateline...lots of layoffs today."
A bad day at any of the three major networks is a good day for me. :-)
Maybe they can bring back Columbo to investigate what went wrong.
How about Olberman? Can that total waste of a chair.
Schadenfreude.
It wouldn't bother me one darn bit if they shut the network down!
>>>How about Olberman? Can that total waste of a chair.
Total waste of oxygen.
Hopefully that'll include the lot over at that $hithole they call MSNBC (a.k.a. BSNBC, DNCNBC, PMSNBC) etc. starting with those azzhats Prissy Mathpuke and Keith Uberjerk.
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We won the election. Sorry, but we don't need you anymore. Sucks to be you. Courage.
Well, to tell the truth, the layoffs would probably hit the peons on whom pretty little has depended. Th big sh*ts, the dan rathers of the place, are likely to survive, regrettably.
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The MSM was virtually a Democratic Party campaign tool this year. And they continue to throw vile crap at American families with their programming. It's long past time that we abandon them completely, even if it means starting our own networks. Don't give them a dime, nor viewership, nor mindshare. If you're serious about seeing them go, shun them completely.
"Possible next conservative project":
Take on the MSM, DBM, whatever you want to call it. I personally consider the MSM to be the closest thing to the anti-christ there is in our world today.
We need to begin an organized, concentrated effort to call them out, boycott their sponsors, and help fund and promote alternative media venues.
I don't have the where with all to accomplish this, but I sure as heck am willing to help in any way possible.
Total waste of oxygen.
Total waste of carbon.
"How about Olberman? Can that total waste of a chair."
As we used to joke about idiots in my former corporation,
"That idiot must have some great photos, the CEO doesn't want to be public.!"
Olberman, Chrissie Matthews and Whorealdo must be sharing the Clintoon Fbi files to survive.
"I can see the Memo...
We won the election. Sorry, but we don't need you anymore. Sucks to be you. Courage."
'Our focus groups showed that you and the others being fired actual cost our side votes.'
"That idiot must have some great photos, the CEO doesn't want to be public.!"
That and more...not just photos.
Really !
Can't we just sneak around their offices with a hidden camera and a conservative just to see if anyone attacks the conservative?
Pinging the Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™ list with an update...
'Dateline' lays off 17
Number does not include buyouts
NEW YORK--Seventeen "Dateline" employees were issued pink slips Friday as NBC moved forward with a plan to pare hundreds of correspondents, producers and cameramen from the news division by early next year.
Sources inside NBC News said 10 "Dateline" staffers in New York were laid off, five in Washington, DC, one in Chicago and another in Burbank. The affected employees were notified by "Dateline" EP David Corvo.
That number does not include buyouts, which have been offered to dozens of employees across the company.
The restructuring, announced last month as part of the "NBC U 2.0" initiative, will eliminate several hundred jobs from the network's sprawling news division, which employs 2,000 and includes two cable networks and numerous local news staffs across the country.
As part of the initiative, New Jersey-based MSNBC is being consolidated into NBC News headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center.
Sources say NBC execs were surprised news staffers who volunteered to take a buyout and predict that when the reductions are complete, the number of buyouts will exceed the number of layoffs.
Execs want to complete layoffs within a week to avoid having to do so close to the holiday season.
Several cameramen in the DC bureau were said to be considering buyouts, which would pay the rough equivalent of three year's salary and allow them to return as freelance employees after six months.
Other reductions in the news division are being achieved by not filling empty jobs.
Reporting expenses such as travel for correspondents have come under increased scrutiny, sources said.
"Dateline," once a five-nights-a-week series, was expected to take a significant hit during the restructuring. This season the show is airing once a week, on Saturdays, and is focusing editorially on true crime and its "To Catch a Predator" series on sexual predators.
The show's staff functions as a production unit for all NBC News shows and also produces special news programming for the network.
Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117953710.html
One can only it hopes it gets worse. Nice beginning though.
.....Sources say NBC execs were surprised news staffers who volunteered to take a buyout .....
Only the dumb rats don't accept pay for leaving a sinking ship
Matthews in particular----must be "doing the right thing" to the "right somebody."
Total waste of oxygen.
Total waste of carbon
Wasted
Boy, did I pick the wrong career! What skills does it take to be a cameraman?
I haven't watched TV for about ten or fifteen years, and to tell the truth I don't think I've ever seen "Dateline."
This article says it is now running only on Saturdays, down from 5 times a week, "and is focusing editorially on true crime and its 'To Catch a Predator' series on sexual predators."
I can't imagine anything I would less like to watch than a weekly series of shows about sexual predators. Good grief. Get a life, NBC.
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