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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News
- Thread starter Mark Roberts
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Another longtime producer, Mary Walsh, leaves CBS News.
CBS News Shake-Up: Producer Exits Network After 46 Years
Original source, quoting Walsh's resignation memo, with additional context:
www.theguardian.com
Notable quote:
“We’ve been reading a lot of goodbyes lately and here I am headed out the door. It’s too soon, even after 46 years,” Mary Walsh wrote in the memo, which was obtained by the Guardian. “But maybe it’s for the best. We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that.”
CBS Evening News executive producer Kim Harvey responded in a memo of her own, saying that was "simply not true".
Please try not to be predictable in your responses.
CBS News Shake-Up: Producer Exits Network After 46 Years
Original source, quoting Walsh's resignation memo, with additional context:
Departing CBS News producer claims political bias as Paramount poised to buy Warner Bros
Mary Walsh, leaving after 46 years, says staffers told to ‘aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum’
Notable quote:
“We’ve been reading a lot of goodbyes lately and here I am headed out the door. It’s too soon, even after 46 years,” Mary Walsh wrote in the memo, which was obtained by the Guardian. “But maybe it’s for the best. We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that.”
CBS Evening News executive producer Kim Harvey responded in a memo of her own, saying that was "simply not true".
Please try not to be predictable in your responses.
Anderson Cooper in trouble if Paramount buys CNN: Source
Anderson Cooper was dismayed at how Weiss handled his most recent piece for "60 Minutes."
Oof this is as Anderson Cooper leaves CBS due to commitments at CNN.
MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Posts Eye-Popping Reaction to Iran War
Weiss amplified celebratory posts about the attack on Iran.
Here is more on Bari Weiss as she reacts to her network's coverage of the attacks on Iran.
She should be thrilled about being able to stay at one job for 46 years. That's very rare.
If they close the WB deal, there will be a lot more of these departures.
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Interesting that this article is from News National (Nexstar). Not that I doubt what the article states but it’s almost like they are trying to stir the pot. Kind of like if Fox News was reporting on CNN.
Extremely rare. As I said on the KTLA thread, with all the upheaval in broadcasting these days, if you are past the typical retirement age range it might be time to get out of the way and make some space for younger generations. Jobs for life in our new economic reality are going to disappear.
True but the pot was already stirred it’s just we have to wait for the extent of the fallout in this case how many CNN staff members have to leave because of the Paramount/WB deal.
The TV Insider article said that she started out as an assistant to a director, so, technically, she didn't have the same job for 46 years. She did have the same employer for that time. That attribute, and her having worked her way up through the ranks, are both unusual. In less elevated contexts, such as local broadcasting, those characteristics disappeared a long, long time ago. (As good as place as any: it was 40 years ago yesterday that I was forcibly ejected from local broadcast journalism in Houston. A contradiction that I may never resolve is that the horrible experience set the stage for subsequent success...in another field. Fortunately, I wasn't even 30 yet when that happened; for someone who spent their working life at one employer, it's got to be rough, though in a different way compared to what I went through, and that much harder to recover from.) But, in Walsh's case, she left voluntarily over principle. Whether this effectively was the same thing as being forced out is a question to which we're unlikely to ever get a definite answer.
Wonder how likely this deal will close at all?
Hopefully she took the buyout. If so she might have enough money to do anything she wants.
9th graf in the Guardian article Mark linked to in his post #662 above:
"Walsh is one of nearly a dozen employees on the network’s evening news program that elected to take a buyout." (The linked-to Variety article in that sentence indicated 11 Evening News staffers took the buyout.)
BTW, she left after 46 years. Assuming she joined CBS out of college, that makes her around 68. She's eligible for Social Security and should already be signed up for Medicare. And some kind of CBS legacy pension plan, assumedly a defined benefit one. All together, Ms. Walsh should probably be okay financially.
I'm not sure about CBS News, but at most companies, producers tend to be members of AFTRA. So her pension would probably come from then. CBS may have had a pension plan at one time, but I'm sure it was converted to a 401K some time ago.
Good to hear she took the buyout. I imagine it's some kind of plan where she gets so many week's pay for every year worked. One month pay for every year worked would equal 15 years of salary. The bad news is they often require a one-time payment, so there's some tax liability. But there are ways to handle that/
Deadline reported in January that the buyouts were offered to non-union employees:
deadline.com
‘CBS Evening News’ Non-Union Staffers Offered Buyouts
The buyous signal more staff reductions at the news division.
deadline.com
Interesting. I know of companies that offered buyouts to AFTRA employees, so I don't know what's involved here.
And just shut up about everything else.
How about she should be p—ed off about seeing an institution she cared about being turned into a de facto mouthpiece for the current regime? Is she allowed to have that feeling?
A revered institution that's consistently in last place in the evening news and has gone through three anchors in three years.
Yeah, we know. So what? That does not require her to refrain from sharing her opinion even if you don’t think she’s expressing proper gratitude.
The media entities can do no wrong and are not to be criticized. We get it.
The media entities can do no wrong and are not to be criticized. We get it.
Who is telling her to "refrain from sharing her opinion?" Show me.
Being a “mouthpiece’ for either party is just that. CBS may be looking at no longer being third place among Democrats and being the only OTA network. for Republicans.
That seems logical and prudent in our two-party system.