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Glenn Beck's Blaze announces mass layoffs
Fox News ^ | August 31, 2017 | Fox News

Posted on 09/01/2017 12:35:18 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Glenn Beck’s struggling media project the Blaze will be conducting mass layoffs in a bid to “keep pace with the massive changes” in the media industry.

“Today, we said goodbye to just over 20 percent of the combined workforce of Mercury Radio Arts and the Blaze,” Beck said in a statement Thursday regarding his television and internet operation.

“We are losing a lot of talented and committed colleagues, who are some of the best human beings I know  —  some have been friends of mine for 30 years.”

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: beck; cheetos; drydrunk; glennbeck; goofball; layoffs; newmedia; searchworks; theblaze
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1 posted on 09/01/2017 12:35:18 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

It’s amazing they lasted as long as they have. The credit card auto renewals must be ending. (that is my guess)


2 posted on 09/01/2017 12:36:33 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Trump20162020

Glen should not have sold his base out


3 posted on 09/01/2017 12:36:55 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Trump20162020

I guess Soros decided to stop propping him up.


4 posted on 09/01/2017 12:36:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be called liberalism." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Trump20162020

I hate that this is happening to his employees and to him as well.

But, he decided to stand on that hill.....


5 posted on 09/01/2017 12:37:03 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: riverrunner

Exactly. He lost me when he went off the deep end.


6 posted on 09/01/2017 12:39:31 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Trump20162020

Tell half your audience to take a hike and they will.


7 posted on 09/01/2017 12:40:20 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Trump20162020

Won’t it be embarrassing for Glenn when he and his juvenile cohorts call some convenience store to play “Moron Trivia” and one of his former employees answers the phone.


8 posted on 09/01/2017 12:41:19 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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9 posted on 09/01/2017 12:44:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: b4its2late
Exactly. He lost me when he went off the deep end.

Which time was that?

10 posted on 09/01/2017 12:44:49 PM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: Lurkinanloomin

If He honestly would have boarded the Trump Train and supported MAGA,he would be better off. He chose to go elsewhere. I still think he is a bi-polar opportunist and waffler.


11 posted on 09/01/2017 12:45:08 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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12 posted on 09/01/2017 12:45:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: shanover

All you have to do to understand people like, Glenn Beck and some of the others in the media is read up on Dry Drunk Syndrome.


13 posted on 09/01/2017 12:46:55 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Let's get Newt in there to help...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Beck, what a weird Masonic/Mormon copycat.

Remember that ritual with George Washington’s compass as he “anointed” Ted Cruz? Vomit.

No wonder Andrew Breitbart hated him. The Blaze is a Soros’ funded counterfeit Breitbart, with no soul. Yuck.


14 posted on 09/01/2017 12:49:09 PM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
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To: nikos1121

When at the top did anybody know that he would end up like this? Nixon, Newt. Stand your ground, be our hero but make sure you’re on solid footing all the way. If Trump gives them a real opening better hope it’s in year 7 of his presidency. MaLame, Megan, and the Crocodile Dundee crotch grab didn’t do it so maybe he’s good.


15 posted on 09/01/2017 12:54:40 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Trump20162020

changes in the media industry = “Glenn totally screwed up and alienated much of our base audience”


16 posted on 09/01/2017 12:56:02 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: Steve Van Doorn

That, and he can’t get distribution through major cable providers to entice more subscribers. And when your revenue model is based on subscription fees, survival becomes problematic.

The warning signs have been there for a while. Not only did Beck turn his back on his base, he (apparently) paid little attention to his company’s financial condition—just kept burning through money like a drunken sailor (with apologies to all swabbies who ever had one too many).

Like some entrepreneurs, Beck surrounded himself with yes men and women. His first CEO had no qualifications, except he was a long time Beck crony who couldn’t tell Beck “no.” When he departed, Beck tried to push a lot of the blame on him. But the real fault lies with Glenn; he kept hiring talent and tried to expand programming when the revenue model simply couldn’t support it.

And the hand-writing was clearly on the wall when Beck jumped on the “conservative outreach field trip” to Silicon Valley. It doesn’t take an MBA to realize Beck was trying to unload his enterprise on a tech firm, or look for more investors. He came hope empty-handed, and TheBlaze has been circling the drain ever since.

I predict the enterprise (or what’s left of it) will go bankrupt within 18 months—tops—and then someone may buy what’s left at a fire-sale price. Potentially, One America News Network might be interested; ditto for Sinclair, which could absorb elements of TheBlaze into its Circa news website.

But don’t worry: Glenn will be just fine. He still has his radio show, which is syndicated by Premier, the same outfit that signs his seven-figure radio paycheck. Pat, Stu, Jeffy and a few more of the inner circle are also paid by Premier, so they will also have jobs after TheBlaze is no more.


17 posted on 09/01/2017 1:09:07 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: Trump20162020
I've tried to listen to Beck a couple times lately. He just can't keep from indulging his #NeverTrump impulses—or having guests which do so.

Who did he have on last night? Brad Thor—an incorrigible NeverTrump clown. I might as well have been listening to a CNN panel.

Glenn Beck deserves all the business he has lost. He had promise, but he lost his mind somewhere along the way—due to a combination of stubborn pride and blind hatred.

There's no middle ground in this war, folks. None. This is true even more so than it was when President Bush said it after 9/11.

This isn't some external force threatening America. This is a family affair—a civil war—and the sooner everyone chooses a side, the better. Ultimately, there will be no room for fence-straddling. Fence-straddlers are simply aiding and abetting the Enemy.

You're either helping to drain the Swamp, or you're helping to maintain the Swamp—and the Swamp is destroying this Republic...

18 posted on 09/01/2017 1:10:40 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: LostInBayport
“Moron Trivia” I never found that segment funny. Not very nice of him to laugh at others' ignorance.
19 posted on 09/01/2017 1:14:49 PM PDT by stayathomemom ( Read Shadow Men, The Progressive Virus, and The Marxist Playbook by Dr. Anthony Napoleon)
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To: Trump20162020

No more Cheetos for you!


20 posted on 09/01/2017 1:15:44 PM PDT by Obadiah
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