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Certainly could fit. Also possible they’re in “do it with two people” budget mode.

I have a better chance of being named People’s “sexiest man alive.”

Indeed. And let it not be said companies have not made moves that in hindsight were kind of stupid. But whatever one may think of the new owners (and I fall into the “not remotely a fan”’camp), the odds they are dumb enough to axe that brand are next to nil. That is not to say they can’t or won’t mess around (even more than they already have) with the content and can’t or won’t do more cross-pollination, but there is no way in heck they’re killing the brand itself.

That seemed self evident for a while even if it wasn’t “official.” She vanished and while she wasn’t a daily fixture, it became noticeable that only Jason and Ducis were still around. Such is life sometimes.

If anyone was dumb enough to put that in a contract, they should be summarily fired.

Oh probably. They like to invent lots of fanciful stories.

Jess was barely senior at the station, she was there only a few years in the grand scheme of things. Jamie Apody’s situation just screams there’s more to the story than being released for cost, which is normally a straight-out vanishing, not being mentioned for months in the sign-off. As for Adam/Bolaris, s—-w Bolaris. What Adam posted was hardly a big deal or biting anyone’s hand. John can sit all the way down and worry about his own business.

It’s the Post, so “sources” are about as real as unicorns having a party with Bigfoot.

People do not need to be rabid fans to recognize the brand. Brand equity and recognition matters. Sometimes of course there is a good reason to move on from a brand, but there are more cases it has far more downside risk than upside potential.

This is spot on. Setting aside that bosses do change, even the same boss can look at the entirety of the business picture in front of them (costs, staff, competition, etc) and make a surface-level different decision that is in no way contradictory to past decisions. The circumstances and data can be different.

The occasional “cop roots out bad cop” storyline is recycled on occasion. Always, the main characters are on the right side, catching the bad ones. That’s what, one episode this season with a bad cops story on SVU, making for a ratio of something like 21:1? Shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy skewer everyone. The left gets mocked as does the right. The bias only seems to show up when someone is on the receiving end of a particular joke. CBS’s scripted shows are primarily the most formulaic procedurals imaginable. Not left, not right. More like paint-by-numbers solve-the-crime shows. The prosecutors on the Law and Order franchise being some vast left-wing bias is kind of comical. The writing is also paint by numbers, even moreso with that particular template. When one of the main prosecutors is akin to Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner, then there’s something to it. ABC is more focused on the preposterous emergencies of the week on 911 and it’s very country music spinoff. Grays Amatomy is basically a soap opera keeping tabs on who’s boinking who this week punctuated also by preposterous scenarios. I mean maybe Abbott Elementsry being a principally Black cast is somehow liberal, but the stories are just making fun of workplaces with the occasional Philadelphia Easter egg thrown in. And as mentioned elsewhere above, the plethora of country music specials an awards dwarfs just about all other genres of music combined.

Left-wing entertainment? Good lord. Half the shows are law-and-order (both “literally” Law & Order, and otherwise) where the police (or FBI, et al) are the upstanding, always-right force for good. CBS basically put Blue Bloods’ faith-and-family hour into a new city. Tim Allen is far from a left-winger over on ABC. Shows like Abbott Elementary are just goofy enough diversions about the foibles of workplace life. Reality wise, who sings better than who, or who is under what costume are now left wing? Kevin O’Leary, arguably the most prominent part of Shark Tank with Cuban gone, is left wing? Heck, Price is Right, the most mainstream, vanilla game show imaginable is still part of the prime time lineup beyond its daytime run.

It is a new copter. (New meaning leased after the tragic crash; not “new” as in off the assembly line.) They’ve included the new chopper in recent newscast openings, even if it may have not been included in the current batch. They send their own reporters up in it. The pool approach was a temporary, stopgap measure in the wake of the crash.

Absolutely true. They reference it as such on most newscasts. They waited a respectful time and then worked it back in. Whether or not they happened to use copter clips in a given show open, there’s really nothing to read into it other than being a creative decision by the editors.

The desk, the theme, the set, the graphics…not a bit of that matters. The network has gone full-on North Korea mode with slobbering over the administration.

Maybe if he actually pushed back on the blatant lies and misinformation. And it’s not remotely childish to point out the SecDef has zero qualifications for the role. That hardly makes him unique in this regime, to be sure. But someone who never was in a command position and has expertise you could fit in a thimble should be scrutinized, not treated like a buddy at a bar.

Did she make a mess or did she do precisely what she was hired to do? Perhaps she should have spiked the story earlier but regardless, she wasn’t hired for her skill set in shepherding the legacy of CBS News into the future. She was hired to be a hatchet person to that legacy. The degree to which we (the collective societal “we”) simply disregard and outright ignore what is happening around us as society falls is staggering to me. Perhaps it shouldn’t be. What has come out in the Epstein files alone would have brought down any other president. Now, it’s not even a blip. Setting aside the veracity of each individual claim, that preponderance of association and cloud of suspicion being utterly ignored by mainstream media is terrifying. Joe Biden slurred some words and the coverage was incessant. The current office holder rants incoherently, makes thinly veiled death threats against perceived enemies, wants to pull non-existent licenses from networks (and the president should actually know how thIs works, but I digress), is linked time and time again to perhaps the worst sexual predators in our lifetime — and the news outlets bring us the latest viral video, cute squirrel story, Taylor Swift gossip or what have you. Not a single one of the big three broadcast news operations is doing real journalism on a regular basis, and now the correspondent who did so has her story killed. Oh wait, I’m sorry, “postponed.” My time on this earth may not be all that much longer in the grand scheme of things. I look at the next generation in my extended family and fear for the world we’re leaving them.

They won’t lose affiliates over it. It’s horrifically bad for anyone who values ethical journalism. But boards like this blow things out of proportion as the general public, writ large, sees and reacts to such things. Setting aside contractual terms as its own thorny issue, this will become background noise to the large chunk of the populace that’s not deeply engaged. That’s even more magnified during the busy holiday period when attention, already at a premium, is stretched to the breaking point. So much (bleep) comes at us so fast over the past year that before long, this will be a forgotten blip. I hate that. I do. But it’s reality. We need to understand how much of an ironclad grip this administration and its allies has on society. There is no Murrow, no Cronkite who will start the downfall. And it’s not going to be a spiked segment on the pre-Christmas 60 Minutes that breaks that grip. The list of times the resistance has hoped “this will be the thing” is long. And every single time, the result has been the same. The gravity of our situation can’t be overstated.

The cowardice is staggering

And is named for a rather famous Chicago Bear.

The vast majority of Philly folks do not move to New York. A couple of people who made that move among the countless more who did not does not make Philadelphia a breeding ground. And moreover, some people do want to “go home.” You somehow know how Payton will feel in the future, based on what, a few travel posts on Instagram? Seriously?

I think she went to visit and introduce herself to (relatively) new colleagues, and there's a sort of natural "clique" (not meaning that in a "Mean Girls" high-school way, to be sure) among people working in the same role for the same employer in sort-of nearby markets. They have a shared scientific interest, and New York has its appeal to many as a place to visit. I enjoy frequent visits, but wouldn't pursue job openings there.

Obsessed? Because someone from the Midwest who is now in easy proximity takes some trips there in her free time? That’s a huge stretch.

Pretty sure we’ve heard that one before in town.

As will many people whose names we don’t know and will suffer as a result.