Salary listing for "so-called" journalist" and tv/radio

[fumsm]

Is there a list of the salary's of the so-called tv and radio talking twits? It seems to me that 99% of them are crying about the tax hikes. Someone should be exposing these hypocrites for what they really are, overpaid boobs with no experience or relevance who are interested in nothing more than screwing the country for their own personal gain. Why do they hate America?

[annabanana]

1. It's a legitimate question...

I don't think that they exactly publish this info...

[NashVegas]

2. Let Me Google That For You

http://tinyurl.com/cygdjv

[glowing]

5. Cute.. that was neat.

[fumsm]

7. That is cool how you did that

However, I should have been more specific. I am looking for a list of the most visible crybabies like Alex Twit, Faux news people, MSNBC whiners, Cnn people etc. The ones who cry 2/7. The search you did shows mostly median salaries, which in my opinion is too watered down. I want the 2/7 shills that have been non-stop, particularly the cable nitwits.

[NashVegas]

14. Glad You Appreciate

Someone posted that site here a week or two ago.

The 99% you're talking about are more like the 7%. The rest - the average and median salaries - are not watered down, I assure you. The overwhelming majority of people working in radio / tv / print will never make more than 40k. They're lucky to make over $30k. I kid you not.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Surely You Jest...

Damn right most of the beltway bubbleheads are pissed. Ya figure that a starting copywriting job or cub reporter is around 35-40k these days, thus when you hit the "big time", you're looking at 200k or more. Add to that the teevee gigs and speaking engagements there's a lot of coin being made by the beltway stenographers.

The hate radio harpies are another story...especially on the local level. Those are the wannabes...the minor leagues. If they are shrill enough or make enough of an ass out of themselves, they, too can work themselves up to the big leagues (a syndication deal) and make more money...or that's how it used to be. The new realities of a ruined economy haven't hit these people yet.

[Kalyke]

9. Where do you live?

When I was a cub reporter in 1993-94, I made a whopping $16,000. Most reporters don't pull in $35K until they've been in the business for years and work for a union newspaper. Editors get about $50K.

You must live in a high-dollar town for cub reporters to be making what a veteran reporter makes in my town.

Heck, even in Southern California, reporters don't make bupkus. $33,000 in California is crap.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_salary_for_a_journalist

[KharmaTrain]

10. Full Time Vs. Part Time

Aren't many cub reporters part time? I was refering to the full-time gigs...the few that remain.

When I started in broadcasting, my first year "full time" salary in 1982 was 9k for the year. I thought 20k was living on easy street.

I'm in Chicago and basing this on entry level suburban and small/medium market jobs I've seen around the Midwest. Granted, it's sure to be lower in the south or intermountain west. And this also doesn't take into account the large number of semi-employed...part timers who make up a backbone of these places now as owners don't have to pay benefits.

The question was about the beltway elite...many who worked their way up from the small towns. I'm sure you'd agree that by the time you hit "the big time" for a major publication, you're moving north of 100k.

[RandomThoughts]

4. Heres an idea.

If a reporter or news producer, or news executive advocates or disagrees with a policy that effects the higher paid class differently then the middle class, then shouldn't the yearly wages and bonus or stock options of said reporters, news producers, and news executives, be scrolled across the screen?

Just for the purpose of full disclosure and to avoid conflict of interest.

Makes sense to me.

[tsuki]

13. I've thought about that, transparency. I am in favor

of transparency. And I want more than salaries, I want political affiliations, lobbying affiliations, net worth, vacations etc.

[NashVegas]

17. If A Reporter or News Producer Went Public With Their *Real* Opinions On That Matter

They wouldn't have jobs.

I'm not talking about Charlie Gibson, I'm talking about the guy or woman who is on your local tv or radio station, and in your newspaper.

It's a Faustian bargain people make: you agree to a starting salary that's less than a Subway sandwich maker would bring home; in return you get paid to observe your surroundings and regurgitate what you see. If you don't piss off management/ownership too much and can hang on long enough, at a ridiculously low salary, to gain the talent and skill needed to move up the ladder, eventually you can make median income or, if you have the ambition of a Rush or a Howard, you can syndicate.

FWIW, that *was* the bargain. The demon reneged on their end and instead of allowing talent, skill, and perseverance to win out, ambition and social skills are occupying all the decision-making seats. This is why traditional media is dying, in spite of what they're telling you about the internet.

[terisan]

6. Keith makes over 7 million per year yet he is in favor of taxing himself higher isn't he? nt

[fumsm]

8. And he should be acknowledged for it as well, but..

these other bastards need exposed, how do we do it? Only seems fair to me that if they are to use their national platform to incite ignorants, and to criticize everyone without fear of retribution because they are "public figures", then at the very least they should be called out on the things we can address, such as being overpaid to lie on tv. Just sayin.

[NJCher]

12. I think you could check it in Lexis Nexis

You'd have to do them independently; for example, "Name of RW Screamer salary contract." Might want to add the name of the entity that produces or syndicates them.

But I think you might be able to put that together. It's a good idea--hope you or someone else does it.

There are also publications that cover broadcast issues. Search there, too.


Cher

[tsuki]

11. I thought about that yesterday and tried to look it up. It is not really

available.

This is what I found out about their contracts per year:

Shep Smith - somewhere between 3-4 million
Hannity - 8 million
O'Reilly - 10 million
Couric - 5 million
Larry King - between 7-14 million
Brit Hume - between 3-4 million
Brian William - last money talk I can find is 1996 5 million dollar contract, unsure of length of contract
Tom Brokaw - 7 million


I don't mean to slight the women anchors, but I tried to goggle their contracts and could not find any info.

[ShortnFiery]

15. Contessa Brewer must have a sweet contract because yesterday she was on her soapbox ...

for the small business owner living in Manhattan: "Say I'm a small business owner ... I don't even have a car! I live in a one bedroom apartment and make just over $250,000 in profits. You want ME to pay for all these *DEADBEATS* in MY TAXES?!?"

What a buffoon. :eyes:

[fumsm]

16. That was amazing, I ripped her for that.

Suggested she put on unemployed average salaried people. Said she could run these people on her show for a hundred years and never run out of interviewees. B@@ch.