Posted on 04/30/2010 8:51:31 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
If “Good Morning America” or “World News” look any different in the coming weeks, it might be because ABC News is employing nearly 400 fewer people.
David Westin, president of ABC News, said this was “a difficult time for everybody” involved.
Brian Rooney, an ABC reporter in Los Angeles, was let go. Earlier this week, ABC News, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, largely completed one of the most drastic rounds of budget cutbacks at a television news operation in decades, affecting roughly a quarter of the staff. The cutbacks promise to change ABC both on- and off-camera.
For some employees, like the longtime Los Angeles correspondent Brian Rooney, Friday was their last day. Mr. Rooney said his contract expired at “exactly the moment when they needed to shed an enormous amount from the payroll.” In an e-mail message, he compared it to “standing looking straight up when the bomb dropped.”
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What is AMAZING is that you can watch ABC News and STILL hear endless lies about what a blessing Obama and the democrats are for the magnificent economy, filled with unicorns and candy.
This complete deceit is being read off telepromptors by soulless professional paid liars in rooms where 1/4 of all their fellow employees were just fired in the Obama/Democrat Great Depression II.
Hey, how do you like getting kicked in the rear while covering the President’s butt.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Join the rest of us peons now.
Well it’s good that we’re living in an economic boom so that these journalists will find good jobs right away. :)
“Knock. Knock. How many people live here.”
True enough. To be a real conservative is to live within your means.
Or at least I’d like to think so...
““Good television news is expensive to do,”
And biased news is even more expensive!
But, but ABC kept telling everybody 0bama’s “stimulus’ worked like magic, and created all these millions of wonderful jobs.
Meanwhile, the same David Westin, after the 9/11 attacks:
“The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now.” — David Westin, ABC News President, Oct 23,2001
Too much beer. I seriously see a circus clown in that one.
CBS needs some big cutbacks, starting with the way way overpaid Katie Kourik
oh. my eyes fill with tears . . . NOT!
Plenty of “Shovel Ready” jobs out there folks. The economy is booming again. Right?....Right?
see 29!
Elections have consequences.
It is indeed sweet irony: The media fanned the flames and CREATED the recession that's now getting their jobs.
Perfect!
“Can’t hardly wait until the next big round of layoffs..”
What are they qualified to do? There’s already a surplus of people scraping road kill up from the streets. BUT WAIT...maybe they could volunteer to BE road kill, then other former ABC employees could scrape them up. Hey, a role for not just one but many ABC employees.
“For viewers, the effects will be felt on the individual broadcasts, like “World News with Diane Sawyer,”
The viewers will feel no effects. They can turn on any channel and get Obambi/Democrat talking points.
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