Just three years after that moment, after building a broad roster at The Free Press, she’s taking a $200 million offer to save desperate, near-extinct CBS News. Naturally, every entitled fat-keistered slob clogging the rolls of non-functional news organizations is crying she doesn’t deserve it. How many of these plaintive mannequins denouncing her “grift” would have the guts to leave one of the cushiest gigs in the print media and bet on themselves in the open market? Zero-point-zero percent, as in not one.
Journalism is dying because of a succession of factual disasters, but the major cross-industry problem is a universal belief that audience is owed. From the Nation episodes to the insane New York Times staff-led purges, modern journalists think your eyeballs belong to them. They see worrying about commercial success as demeaning and are often happier if their work isn’t widely read, because they believe America’s audience is a Great Moron. ...
What a bunch of jealous, worthless losers.
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