Showing posts with label Comcast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comcast. Show all posts
Monday, July 31, 2023
Take a good, good look...
That's right...take a good, good look at these photos...photos of some of Big Media's biggest powers at the top.
Netflix founder Reed Hastings...
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav...
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts...
Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish...
Disney CEO Bob Iger...
Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch...
Yes, I'm going to ruffle a bunch of feathers for saying this...but I'm going to say it:
If it weren't for (let's face it) corporate greed and for complacency at the top (in other words, the studios' tremendous reliance on movie franchises, movie remakes, and TV reboots), the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists wouldn't be out on strike. It's the first time since 1960 that both unions shut down.
Not all actors are wealthy. Matter of fact, the average California actor earned $27.73 per hour in 2022, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. And movie-TV performers aren't paid full-time year-'round.
And, per a 7-17-2023 post on cnn.com on why the writers and performers are picketing, 12.7% of all SAG-AFTRA members make an annual salary of $26,470...the minimum amount that qualifies an entertainer for health insurance.
160,000 SAG-AFTRA members...11,000 people in the WGA.
I still think that there's more than enough money out there to satisfy all sides in the matter.
How about you?
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Just desserts?
I read this on the Internet yesterday:
"Matt Lauer fired from Today for sexual harassment"
I couldn't believe it.
I'm still, to this very day, thinking about his role in helping to create the garbage going on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (Do you remember the MSNBC special he hosted last year, where Lauer threw hardball questions at Hillary Rodham Clinton, then turned around and gave softball inquiries to Donald Trump...a man who spent eleven years on Matt's main network, NBC?)
Late this past Tuesday, NBC News Chief Andrew Lack told the 59-year-old New York City native to clean out his desk. And as soon as Today came on yesterday morning, coanchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb gave viewers the news about Lauer's firing.
Lauer threw two decades as show cohost down the drain.
One of Lauer's colleagues turned in a detailed complaint against his inappropriate sexual behavior, and it triggered a serious review by Lack and his colleagues.
It all stemmed from an incident the colleague reported took place in 2014, when NBC and most of the other Comcast networks were showing the 2014 Winter Olympics (held in Sochi, Russia).
Lauer's victim reported this to NBC's human resources department this past Monday; the next day, he got the pink slip.
Two years before the Sochi incident, Katie Couric (who cohosted Today from 1991 to 2006) was interviewed on Bravo's Watch What Happens.
Host Andy Cohen asked Couric to describe Lauer's "most annoying trait."
Couric's reply: "He pinches me on the [posterior] a lot."
'Nuff said.
From what I've read, it's not so surprising that Lauer would help deliver a proven sexual predator to the very top of American politics.
Compared to what just happened with Lauer, it's going to be very hard to remove Trump from the most talked-about political office there is...but we really need to be up to it.
Some of this information came from Jen Hayden's 11-29-2017 Daily Kos article about Matt's removal from the job he's best known for. (Jen, many, many, many thanks!)
"Matt Lauer fired from Today for sexual harassment"
I couldn't believe it.
I'm still, to this very day, thinking about his role in helping to create the garbage going on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (Do you remember the MSNBC special he hosted last year, where Lauer threw hardball questions at Hillary Rodham Clinton, then turned around and gave softball inquiries to Donald Trump...a man who spent eleven years on Matt's main network, NBC?)
Late this past Tuesday, NBC News Chief Andrew Lack told the 59-year-old New York City native to clean out his desk. And as soon as Today came on yesterday morning, coanchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb gave viewers the news about Lauer's firing.
Lauer threw two decades as show cohost down the drain.
One of Lauer's colleagues turned in a detailed complaint against his inappropriate sexual behavior, and it triggered a serious review by Lack and his colleagues.
It all stemmed from an incident the colleague reported took place in 2014, when NBC and most of the other Comcast networks were showing the 2014 Winter Olympics (held in Sochi, Russia).
Lauer's victim reported this to NBC's human resources department this past Monday; the next day, he got the pink slip.
Two years before the Sochi incident, Katie Couric (who cohosted Today from 1991 to 2006) was interviewed on Bravo's Watch What Happens.
Host Andy Cohen asked Couric to describe Lauer's "most annoying trait."
Couric's reply: "He pinches me on the [posterior] a lot."
'Nuff said.
From what I've read, it's not so surprising that Lauer would help deliver a proven sexual predator to the very top of American politics.
Compared to what just happened with Lauer, it's going to be very hard to remove Trump from the most talked-about political office there is...but we really need to be up to it.
Some of this information came from Jen Hayden's 11-29-2017 Daily Kos article about Matt's removal from the job he's best known for. (Jen, many, many, many thanks!)
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