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How much do you think they make?
I hate how they always portray themselves as regular people "It must be nice to be able to afford that, Miles."

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Why the hell does anyone watch CNN? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Faux News represent.

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I don't know but am interested. I had a friend that used to pound Daryn Kagan like a hammer when she was here in Phoenix. He even banged her on Camelback Mountain once in the dark, city lights in the background. Lucky he didn't get his dick bit off by a snake...

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Probably less than you think. I was a sports reporter and anchor for about five years, and the money is really, really lousy until you get to a really big market or network.

Obviously, CNN is a network, but I think you would be surprised at how little most of the on-air talent makes. The guys who start on ESPNEWS, for example, only get about $45-50K to start.

The top level anchors at CNN like Daryn Kagan, however, are probably doing very well, $300-600K I'd guess. It's really hard to get real good info about salaries in TV for some reason. People just don't talk about it much.

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I have no idea, but the ones at Fox must make more. All of them seem to eventually defect from CNN to Fox.

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they READ the news. Off of a teleprompter. They don't make the news, they don't investigate and discover the news. They just read it. No difference between what they do and if you were to read - outloud - this very paragraph.

If they make more than $40,000 a year (obviously, they do) it's too much.

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No difference between what they do and if you were to read - outloud - this very paragraph.

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Oversimplification.

BTW, Peter Jennings was rumored to make $10 million in 2001.

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they READ the news. Off of a teleprompter. They don't make the news, they don't investigate and discover the news. They just read it. No difference between what they do and if you were to read - outloud - this very paragraph.

If they make more than $40,000 a year (obviously, they do) it's too much.

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I'm not speculating on that. I'm just curious.

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they READ the news. Off of a teleprompter. They don't make the news, they don't investigate and discover the news. They just read it. No difference between what they do and if you were to read - outloud - this very paragraph.

If they make more than $40,000 a year (obviously, they do) it's too much.

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The best is when they can't find actual experts so they just interview each other, which has been going on more and more it seems. They all do this now. The TV stations interview the newspaper reporters. The newspaper reporters quote the TV guys. It's really awful "journalism".

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they READ the news. Off of a teleprompter. They don't make the news, they don't investigate and discover the news. They just read it. No difference between what they do and if you were to read - outloud - this very paragraph.

If they make more than $40,000 a year (obviously, they do) it's too much.

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There is no difference between what Shaquille O'Neil does and what I do with a bunch of co-workers twice a week as well?

Anchors have a lot to do with the ratings. Look at ABC for proof. If they provide that much value, let them be paid whatever someone will pay them. This obviously matters for large national broadcasts more, but there is a reason why they are paid so much.

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they READ the news. Off of a teleprompter. They don't make the news, they don't investigate and discover the news. They just read it. No difference between what they do and if you were to read - outloud - this very paragraph.

If they make more than $40,000 a year (obviously, they do) it's too much.

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I think about 95% of the anchors in Hollywood just say lines they memorized... is that true?

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This post's title should have had a question mark in it. Annoying.

-bb.

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they READ the news. Off of a teleprompter. They don't make the news, they don't investigate and discover the news. They just read it. No difference between what they do and if you were to read - outloud - this very paragraph.

If they make more than $40,000 a year (obviously, they do) it's too much.

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I think about 95% of the anchors in Hollywood just say lines they memorized... is that true?

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I assume you meant to say "actors" instead of "anchors". If you can't see the difference between what actors do and what newscasters do, you probably shouldn't be posting anywhere.

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they READ the news. Off of a teleprompter. They don't make the news, they don't investigate and discover the news. They just read it. No difference between what they do and if you were to read - outloud - this very paragraph.

If they make more than $40,000 a year (obviously, they do) it's too much.

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I think about 95% of the anchors in Hollywood just say lines they memorized... is that true?

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I assume you meant to say "actors" instead of "anchors". If you can't see the difference between what actors do and what newscasters do, you probably shouldn't be posting anywhere.

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I did mean actors.

Dominic said news anchors are no different than any one of us, reading the news copy.

I should have asked if he also believes actors are no different than any of us, reading or saying lines of dialogue.

I *do* think actors are better at what they do than random lay people would be, and I also *know* that news anchors are very skilled at what they do. It's not just reading scripts you know... there is a lot of ad-libbing and adjusting on the fly, as the news can and does change in the middle of a newscast.

Of course, there are some no-talent bimbos out there in the news world and the acting world.

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[Lou] Dobbs's mission: to restore Moneyline to its dominance. So far, he hasn't succeeded -- despite his star-status salary, a reported $4 million.

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$4 million? Fook. You've got to be kidding me.

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i just got a camcorder and make films around the house. think im qualified to film porn? it must be the same thing.

you think everyone who can read, is as qualified as wolf blitzer to be an anchor?

bwana

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People like Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer, etc, make millions. The unknowns that fill in on the weekends or on Headline News make around $120 - $140K. As was mentioned previously, this is after years of working in small markets, where reporters can be making as low as $30K. The size of the market is the biggest determining factor in broadcaster salaries, followed by experience.

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People like Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer, etc, make millions. The unknowns that fill in on the weekends or on Headline News make around $120 - $140K. As was mentioned previously, this is after years of working in small markets, where reporters can be making as low as $30K. The size of the market is the biggest determining factor in broadcaster salaries, followed by experience.

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What about attractiveness?

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This post's title should have had a question mark in it. Annoying.

-bb.

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Great point.

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People like Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer, etc, make millions. The unknowns that fill in on the weekends or on Headline News make around $120 - $140K. As was mentioned previously, this is after years of working in small markets, where reporters can be making as low as $30K. The size of the market is the biggest determining factor in broadcaster salaries, followed by experience.

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What about attractiveness?

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That helps them get on the air in the first place. And blowjobs, lots and lots of blowjobs.

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Jeremy Paxman gets around £800k for presenting Newsnight on BBC 2.

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Being attractive and having the right voice should be worth a lot.

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No difference between what they do and if you were to read - outloud - this very paragraph.

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i just got a camcorder and make films around the house. think im qualified to film porn? it must be the same thing.

you think everyone who can read, is as qualified as wolf blitzer to be an anchor?

bwana

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1) look up the defintion of the word "hyperbole."

2) Obviously it takes SOME talent to comfortably read a teleprompter in front of a camera for a live audience. That's why I thought $40,000 a year was fair. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

3) I'm also not talking about real REPORTERS like Wolf Blitzer, who also produce a lot of their own news stories.

I'm talking about those numbskulls on the local news channels who couldn't cut it as an actor and who now read the news. You know, in some parts of Europe, that's what they call them: "news readers." Give just about anyone a day of training and they could do it reasonably well, too.

So you see, I basically think the movie Anchorman is partially a documentary. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Whatever Melissa Theuriau makes it's not even close to enough.

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I don't know what the CNNers make, but I'm sure it's way too much. It's been so long since I've watched it I thought Bernard Shaw was still the main anchor. Nowadays I get most of my information from the web and I watch the local news. For national and international news I tune into http://www.nakednews.com Now those girls deserve some money.