I don’t understand this at all.
Why not just raise the salaries of each of these employees so that CNN can be more profitable and everybody’s job will be safe?
I’ve had a few close encounters with a field crew of theirs years ago.
The cnn trio uplinked stuff periodically and paid my station to do it.
They came in, would pull equipment out and recable at will and put nothing back ever. Not even so much as a gee thanks or even acknowledgement anyone else but them existed.
Since they were paying customers, we had to be nice to them.