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Posted Monday, February 27th, 2006 - 15 Comments »

Who Wants You To Know How Much Stacey Makes?

My first rule of journalism: If someone is telling you something you aren

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15 Responses to “Who Wants You To Know How Much Stacey Makes?”

  1. PandaBear says:
    February 27, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    Anytime a story is leaked the reporter has to wonder what are the motivations behind it? Who benefits from the story? What agenda’s are at play? You have to ask the questions. Usually it leads to a much better story.
    The public doesn’t believe unnamed sources anymore. There have been too many lies and made up stuff (ie Blair, Glass, Frey).

  2. Eric says:
    February 27, 2006 at 1:52 pm

    Dave, don’t attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. It’s facile to say the problems in the “traditional media” are a result of “ultimate arrogance.”
    What has really happened to most news outlets in the past few years is that they’ve been confronted by people who have figured out how to exploit the systemic shortcomings of traditional reporting.
    You orchestrate multiple sources for a bogus story, and you’ll get it reported. If somebody tries to report the truth, you accuse them of bias. Viola, there is no truth, and hey, truth is just a matter of opinion, anyways.
    This is the failure of the media. People have figured out how to game the system.
    Not arrogance. Stupidity.

  3. Mark Ziegler says:
    February 27, 2006 at 1:58 pm

    I’ll take the job paying 3 mill a yr. But I will say. Snider will earn every penny. This is not an easy job at all right now.

  4. Bruce says:
    February 27, 2006 at 4:16 pm

    Spin, Spin, and even more Spin.

  5. Sanchez says:
    February 27, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    That is a big pay cut if it’s true.
    8 to 3 million? I hope she has a good bonus plan in place.

  6. palmtree says:
    February 27, 2006 at 7:31 pm

    It feels like a lot of red herrings before the Berman ouster. They make is sound like Snider is not as ambitious because she has kids and would rather be creative than beholden to the corporate powers. But is that just because it deflects questions about Snider’s grooming for the top spot?

  7. Cadavra says:
    February 27, 2006 at 8:18 pm

    I have even less interest in what Snider makes than I do in who’s going to win “Skating With Celebrities.” Why should ANYONE care?

  8. Fades To Black says:
    February 27, 2006 at 9:04 pm

    I do like hearing what other, famous people make.
    Because it makes me appreciate how little I make in the world.

  9. grandcosmo says:
    February 28, 2006 at 1:16 am

    >>>>Why should ANYONE care?
    Because talking about which executive is going where and what kind of compensation they’re getting makes outsiders feel like insiders.
    Meanwhile they all keep turning out the dreck.

  10. Terence D says:
    February 28, 2006 at 5:57 am

    I’m always curious to find out what someone else makes. It doesn’t effect me in the slightest but it peaks my curiosity levels.

  11. David Poland says:
    February 28, 2006 at 11:32 am

    Eric – I would argue – and do in today’s Hot Button – that the lack of response to the change in reality is based in arrogance. And agree that the continued failure to understand that it won’t fly anymore is stupid.
    But Claudia Eller is NOT stupid… nor are Patrick Goldstein, John Horn, Sharon Waxman, Laura Holson, Nicole LaPorte, Gabriel Snyder or any of the other consistent offenders on this front. They are very smart and very aware. But they are also a little like kids at a prep school that is suddenly competing against public schools in athletic contests, losing in ways they never had before, and now blame the schools they are playing.

  12. palmtree says:
    February 28, 2006 at 11:38 am

    What choice does Eller have with a story like this? Sure she’s being used, but if she turns it down then someone else will gladly get the “scoop.”

  13. Angelus21 says:
    February 28, 2006 at 2:38 pm

    Did you expect these old media journalists to finally accept everyone and let everyone into their little club?
    Nah. They’ll fight this tooth and nail and try to disrespect new media at all turns.

  14. Richard Nash says:
    February 28, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    You only have to look at who this story makes look good to know why it was written and for whom it was written.

  15. Martin S says:
    March 1, 2006 at 8:15 pm

    The truth is simple – Snyder was a very bad studio head. Spielberg can spin the “she understands art and commerce” lines all he wants, it doesn’t justify Van Helsing, Hulk or Kong. Each was a bust *because* she didn’t understand the properties at her disposal. She’s not Pascal. Hell, she’s not even Shuler-Donner or Hurd.
    Whatever she’s being paid, it’s coming out of loyalty and not ability. This latest piece seems to be a counter-punch to Snyder’s initial “I got out on my own” dance. If I was Uni, especially after Kong, I sure as hell wouldn’t let her dictate the reasons for departure.
    Uni should bring De Luca in.

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