Couric is worth $15 MILL/YEAR??? My ASS!!

[Tyler Durden]

So Katie is going to bail on TODAY for an evening anchor spot (a joke, even unto itself) and continue in her $15 MILLION A YEAR SALARY.

This is a travesty beyond belief.

Kiddies, I gotta tell ya, in my cosmology JESUS CHRIST doesn't rate a salary of $15 Million a year, let alone little miss mindless morningshow fluffette.

You know ANYONE you'd fork over $15 million a year for (and Mother Theresa types don't count: they'd give it away)???

I am DYING to hear suggestions on this one.

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Well, Christ doesn't deserve a $15M salary

He got nothing. It wouldn't have worked if he had.

[ThomCat]

2. Nobody on earth is worth that kind of salary.

I don't care what the hell they do for a living or how big an audience they bring in.

[RobertSeattle]

3. Capitalism dude

And we are a society that has made a cult out of celebrities so we can't just have Joe Smoe read the news to us.

[Blue_Tires]

4. hey, i said that years ago

when A-Rod got the contract for 25 mil per year...

[RagingInMiami]

5. Well if JC made that much

He might have been able to pay Judas enough money to keep from betraying him.

[wake.up.america]

6. It is all economics. Apparently they feel she will jack up the ratings.

Earning the company more than what she is earning from them.

[msgadget]

7. Have I been missing something great?

I don't watch her - ever - and never have. Is she....like, super charismatic or something? What's this thing with her and Matt Lauer - do people lurve the heck out of them or are the networks smoking something funny while negotiating their contracts?

[astonamous]

8. It's hard work to read the news from a promter....n/t

:sarcasm:

[progmom]

9. Some CEOs earn comparable amounts when you include bonuses

and options. And hell....look at sports stars. It's ridiculous, and the spread between what the lowest-paid person in a company and the highest-paid earns has gotten out of control.

But in the context of our curent reality, are you asking if it's too much? Maybe not.

[novalib]

15. Sports Starts, Too

I think a lot of sports stars earn even more than some corporate CEO's.

I heard today that the average price for tickets to professional baseball games had gone up. I guess that's why.

[Tyler Durden]

20. HI Prog! But yeah, it's way too much.

I would LOVE for these folks like Couric to spend a couple of months in downtown Flint or Detroit, trying to make it on Welfare or $5.15/hour.

They need some serious perspective, before history forces it down their collective throats.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Are we gonna get the full list from you?

Of people who aren't worth their salaries?

Sheesh.

She's worth whatever she can get them to pay, as far as I'm concerned - just like anyone else selling their services.

The only travesty is that she'll get enough VIEWERS for CBS to justify that salary. It's the existence of the viewers that drive this - Couric's just the beneficiary. Blame the viewers.

[Tyler Durden]

13. NOBODY is worth that much.

Not to be redundant here, but when about 15,000 children starved to death today, anyone who could accept that much money as a SALARY not as INVESTMENT income (Which I don't approve of either, but hey, we could tax that) should be forced to stand on a street corner naked and be spat on.

Grow some moral outrage, dude.

Sheesh yourself.

[BlooInBloo]

17. Ah. Not a believer in people negotiating their own pay...

... as long as anything bad is going on anywhere...

My bad. I didn't fully appreciate the position you were speaking from...

Still, from your position even, Couric isn't to blame. Don't blame the playa - blame the game - and Couric didn't invent the game.

[Tyler Durden]

22. non sequiter.

Because there's a rigged game, you aquit the "playa."

Nope.

You feel free if you want. I'll keep my moral outrage if you don't mind. Greed after all is one of the seven deadlies.

[bloom]

25. It probably just sounds odd

to have people SO outraged about what one woman is going to make - who will probably bring in more viewers and advertising dollars. Not that many women have the opportunity to make that much - without being celebrities of one sort or another.


Here are some other people to be outraged about (from 2004) :

Yahoo Inc. Terry S. Semel $109,301,385

Coach Inc. Lew Frankfort $64,918,520

XTO Energy Inc. Bob R. Simpson $62,141,981

United Health Group Inc. William W. McGuire $58,784,102

Viacom Inc. Summer M. Redstone $56,017,985

TXU Corp. John C. Wilder $54,960,893

Countrywide Financial Corp. Angelo R. Mozilo $52,993,637

Occidental Petroleum Ray R. Irani $52,648,142

KB Home Bruce Karatz $47,288,228

Gateway Inc. Wayne R. Inouye $46,338,744

http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/

[novalib]

27. Should We Abolish the New Orleans Sports Teams

I think many of the professional athletes who play for the New Orleans teams make more than $15 million as year.

Should we abolish them in order to feed, clothe, and house the kids left homelss by Hurricane Katrina?

[Bridget Burke]

14. That's assuming Couric will give CBS a net gain....

They will lose at least one view of Couric gets the job.

[BlooInBloo]

18. CBS pays geeks a lot of money to make that assessment...

... I've gotta assume they're good at making such assessments, else CBS wouldn't be paying them to do it...

Time will tell, of course...

[Bridget Burke]

30. Hey, Bush paid a lot of (our) money for "intelligence"....

That proved Saddam had WMD.

[BlooInBloo]

32. Businesses have to live in reality... not so gw....

Which isn't to say those geeks can't be wrong... I'm just sayin - due diligence was done to justify the salary... Economically at least, if not morally...

[Bridget Burke]

41. Yes--businesses always make the correct decisions!

General Motors: Let's build more SUV's!

[BlooInBloo]

45. I clearly addressed that strawman in my post....

[laruemtt]

11. $15 million could:

- do a heck of a lot of good for NO and the katrina victims.

- help a lot of the soldiers hurt in this "war" and the families of those killed.

- make jobs for a hell of a lot of the unemployed.

- help feed all the hungry children in this country.

- send how many of hundreds or thousands to college?

- ad infinitum - you add your own.


and this is all going to one idiotic vapid giggling "news model"? this is immoral!

[Ron Green]

12. Here's the simple outline:

Church = Superego (Jesus, Buddha, vow of poverty, etc.)
State = Ego (laws, Constitution, citizenship, etc.)
Market = Id (lizard brain, buy SUV, fear terrorists, pay Couric and A-Rod $15 million, etc.)

When the Market runs amok, it controls the other two and we have the crazy world in which we now live.

[Tyler Durden]

16. And here's the eventual response.

When you behave like an Imperial Romanov for a long enough time, eventually the serfs will invent the newest version of Lenin and Bolshevism, rise up, SHOOT YOU, and throw your dismembered corpses in the nearest hole.

A History-Heavy education makes things rather obvious in a socio-political long-term sense.

[Ron Green]

24. I hear ya, but here is what I think is different this time:

Teevee has drugged the masses better than religion could ever hope to, so the next People's Revolution will be a long time coming, if at all. I mean, who is going to rise up? The workers? The minorities? The Wal*Mart shoppers?

[Tyler Durden]

47. Give em time, Ron...

Took the serfs in Russia 400 years to get their balls up to revolt.

We have the rePukes trying to MAKE serfs of us...How long do you think Joe Sixpack is going to sit still for his $20+/Hour Visteon/Delphi/Etc. job turning into $10/hour, watching his boat/suv/HOUSE all go on the block?

These guys have bad attitudes already, and GUNS. All the Bolsheviks had were a very few guns and their bodies to put on the line.

It's going to happen, and MAN, will it be UGLY when the cities erupt.

[Jacobin]

19. Hey, its cheap when you think about the loyalty to the

Bush machine that paltry sum buys.

She'll do or say anything to make the corporatists who run the country happy. ANYTHING, kinda like "Navy Seals Rock", or whatever it may be.

Cheap cheap cheap to keep the Murkin people deluded with a 'happy face' bimbo.

[AngryAmish]

21. She. Reads. The. News.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

39. Hopefully that's all. Most anchors in my recent memory also

act as the top editor of the news divisions.

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[bloom]

26. Do you ask similar questions about men who make a lot of money?

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[aden_nak]

28. I will do it for $1 million per year. Think of the corperate savings!

[laruemtt]

31. i'll underbid ya and do it for $100,000! n/t

[tnlefty]

38. Think of the money that could be used for investigative journalists!

But they would expose too much and harm the controlling corp. interests so we can't have that.

[Atman]

29. I guaran-effing-tee I could read news with more authority than Couric

No question. My voice work so far is limited to a couple of Jiffy Lube commercials, some promo spots and characters for a radio station, and a little animated film I've been working on for years, but still, I promise I could sit in front of a camera and read the telepromter with absolute clarity and authority.

And I'd do it for less than a million bucks. The first year, anyway. We'd have to negotiate after that! ;-)

[Ron Green]

34. Yeah, but let's see yer gams.

:smoke:

[Atman]

37. You got me there

But wait until growing season and I'll show you some awesome YAMS!

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. But do you have gravitas? *l*

[KyuzoGator]

36. Ironically, it was the inside of HER ASS that got her there.

nt

[bloom]

40. Do you people realize how sexist you are? Trying to compete with Rush?

[KyuzoGator]

42. I'm referring to her colonoscopy on national television.

If I made a disparaging remark about her gender, please feel free to point it out to me.

[Beaverhausen]

43. That colonoscopy is the only good thing she has done.

Hey- even I had one because she raised awareness of colon cancer.

She will not last long as an anchor, mark my words. "Hosting" a morning show and anchoring a news show are two very different things.

[Atman]

46. Bullshit.

Sorry, Bloom. Katie got hopped up on tranqs and put her colon out there for all to see, then capitalized on the warm fuzzies everyone supposedly got -- inexplicably, in my mind -- from the whole spectacle.

This isn't a matter of sexism. America looked deep into Katie's colon and saw her soul.

[earth mom]

44. I don't really care how much that airhead makes...

though she ain't worth 2 cents IMO. What I care about is that she is going to RUIN CBS News with her little rethuglican sneers and holier than thou attitude. :puke:

CBS was the ONLY news I felt sorta okay about since they did cover some stories honestly. That's over now, obviously.

I hope they lose viewers in droves-they lost me-that's for sure.