Posted on 11/23/2009 12:27:18 PM PST by Mikey_1962
The axe is starting to fall on the staff of more than 20 producers and reporters that Lou Dobbs left behind when he abruptly left CNN two weeks ago.
Late Friday, the CNNers were told that they could start applying for new jobs at the all-news network -- with the clear implication that their old jobs were going to end shortly.
In his years at CNN, Dobbs amassed the largest single staff at the network, according to insiders, operating independently from the rest of the network in a closed-off area of the network's new headquarters in the Time Warner building on Columbus Circle.
Many of the long-time "Lou Dobbs Tonight" staffers, including on-air reporters Kitty Pilgrim and Bill Tucker, are facing unemployment unless they can find spots elsewhere on CNN.
John King, CNN's longtime political reporter, will be taking over Dobbs' hour -- 7 p.m. weeknights -- sometime in January. CNN is moving the show's base from New York to Washington to accommodate him.
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CNN purges all the wrong thinking non-persons.
It’s not that “the axe has fallen”. It’s “CNN has an axe to grind” with Dobbs and those staffers are the fallguys.
No wonder Dobbs was the most successful part of CNN.
He avoided the goons like the plague whilst keeping folks with actual talent close by.
Why wouldn’t their old jobs end, since Dobbs has left?
FOX should grab Kitty Pilgrim. She is pretty, well-informed, and very intelligent. And conservative.
Cute! Almost as cute as the real Kitty Pilgrim!
A perfect example of trickle down.
Steve, how do you get ‘em to hold still?
Hello, neighbor.Can you say purge? I new you could.
Look for a field of decaying corpses with blue plastic bags on their heads.
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