Lying Pays: Brian Williams to Make $8-10 Million a Year at MSNBC
Donn Marten
June 21, 2015
Disgraced NBC anchorman lyin’ Brian Williams has done his penance and will be back on the airwaves by the end of the summer. Williams, whose proclivity for stretching the truth led to an ugly public flogging as well as a six month suspension will be revving up the lie machine again at the propaganda arm of the Democratic party that is MSNBC. While the shifting of lyin’ Brian from the national anchor chair of the nightly McNews broadcast may be a loss of prestige for a pathological liar and egomaniac he won’t exactly be hurting financially. According to reports the serial prevaricator’s $8-10 million salary is not expected to take too much of a ding. Welcome to America in 2015 where lying, cheating and backstabbing are among the top qualifications for the nation’s more prestigious jobs.
As reported by the celebrity news website The Wrap in an exclusive piece entitled “Brian Williams Salary Shocker: Close to $10 Million for 10 Percent of NBC Audience”:
Brian Williams will still make close to $10 million per year despite his demotion to a breaking news role at MSNBC, which has at best just 10 percent the audience of the “NBC Nightly News” broadcast, an individual with knowledge of his compensation told TheWrap.
The insider said that Williams would be making “between $8 and $10 million,” adding that the figure represented what the former anchor considered a big cut in pay.
The disgraced news anchor was making closer to $15 million at the network, not the $10 million that has been previously reported, the insider said.
An NBC News spokesman declined to comment, saying that the network won’t discuss personnel contracts.
But multiple individuals told TheWrap that Williams’ salary cut was not as significant as might be expected, given how much smaller the MSNBC audience is than that of the network he was leaving.
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Meanwhile, Williams continues to take criticism internally from colleagues at the network, and is not much better liked at MSNBC, where he anchored a show in its early years.
“A big conversation here is what kind of message does this send — are lies OK on MSNBC, but not NBC?” one MSNBC insider told TheWrap, adding that producers feel executives are more interested in the possible ratings surge Williams can provide the struggling network rather than in protecting its credibility.
But one executive at a rival network predicted it would not impact the ailing cable news channel.
“It’s not going to make any difference for MSNBC,” the rival network executive said. “What MSNBC needs is a series of new prime time shows, and this doesn’t solve this.”
You have to love the anonymous MSNBC insider who incredulously asks “are lies OK on MSNBC, but not NBC?” as though the Obama Broadcast Network has anything to peddle even remotely approaching the truth. There is a big reason why MSNBC’s ratings suck and it is that it is obvious propaganda delivered by pathetic personalities such as prissy Chris Hayes, horse-faced lesbian Rachel Maddow and foaming at the mouth Chris Matthews. Actually lyin’ Brian is already the cream of the crop at MSNBC given the dismal cast of characters that it trots out nightly to spoonfeed the liberals their tasty morsels of bullshit. Take in from no less of an authoritative source than Meet the Press host Chuck Todd who called Williams “shockingly honest”.
It used to be that being caught lying like a king bastard would at least have consequences including being fired but this is a brave new world now and the bigger the liar the bigger the paycheck. Just look at ABC’s pretty boy frontman George Stephanopoulos whose blatant conflict of interest as a Clinton crime family flack earned him a cool $105 million over seven years. It is no wonder why America has rotted from the inside both morally and economically and that the star-spangled sheep are so painfully ignorant, of all of our failed institutions the worst one by far is the mainstream media.
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