Don’t you hate it when backstage politics spill out and threaten to overtake the onstage politics that the MSM wishes to inflict upon us?
In a supposed discussion of financial ethics with left-wing Harvard professor Michael Sandel on Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry decried people being able to pay more money to get through airport security faster: “…there’s an inherent unfairness to it….it’s about those with money having an easier life than those who don’t. And there’s something fundamentally unfair about that.”
If you say so, Ann:
Matt Lauer has signed a new, long-term deal with the “Today” show. He will become way richer than he already is, and we’re told the next move will be to send Ann Curry packing.
As TMZ first reported, Lauer got close to his $30 million a year asking price, nearly doubling his $17 million a year current salary.
It’s bad news for Ann Curry, because our sources say Lauer does not want her as his co-host, and it appears her fate is now sealed.
NBC sources say Ann’s likely replacement will be Savannah Guthrie.
Last year, when Curry was tapped to replace Meredith Vieira as co-host of the Today Show, one Website reported the promotion “could take Curry’s $3 million annual salary up to anywhere between $5 million and $11 million.”
If TMZ’s report that Lauer wishes Curry out is true, and her bags are already packed, presumably she’ll be happy to move through the TSA line as fast as possible.
In more serious news at NBC, “Second Producer Quietly Fired in NBC’s EditGate:”
Supposedly this was all an accident.
And yet the same identical false edits were created both at NBC/NY HQ (for the Today show) and down at the NBC Miami affiliate.
An unnamed source at NBC6/Miami indicates that NBC really isn’t sorry at all:
“The network is very sensitive about the whole Al Sharpton/MSNBC issue, so when the right-wing bloggers started hammering, they needed to throw them fresh meat,” said the station source, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the controversy. “It’s not at all clear how this happened. Obviously, there was miscommunication.”
So NBC didn’t fire anyone because they thought they committed a firable offense — they just wanted to appease “right-wing bloggers” with some “fresh meat” due to their being “sensitive” about the “Al Sharpton/MSNBC issue.”
Funny how Ann and Matt seem to have little time to discuss the sort of “inherent unfairness” their parent network has inflicted on the man whom Jim Treacher dubs, “America’s latest Emmanuel Goldstein.”
(There will be more during the rolling two-minute hate between now and November.)
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