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The Scythe Draws Near: CNN’s Overpaid ‘Talent’ Brace for Deep Cuts Amid Corporate Shakeup Liberal television networks are increasingly viewed as declining assets nobody wants to own. Their audiences are getting smaller, older, and deader. Viewership rates among Americans who don't currently reside in an assisted living facility are plummeting to zero. Nobody wants to invest. Media companies are desperate to get these failing networks, and the exorbitant paychecks of their vainglorious anchors, off their books as soon as possible. MSNBC parent company Comcast announced last year it was spinning off the left-wing network into a separate entity. Joy Reid was (finally) fired earlier this year, as corporate cost-cutters took aim at the impossible-to-justify salaries of network "talent" such as Rachel Maddow ($30 million), Joe Scarborough (eight figures), and Chris Hayes ($4-5 million). Gravy Train Derails at MSNBC: Top Anchors Face Huge Pay Cut After Comcast Severs Ties With Left-Wing Network Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN, made a similar announcement earlier this month. CNN and other declining television assets will be split off into a new company called "Global Networks," while the conglomerate's more promising assets, such as the Warner Bros. film studio and the HBO Max streaming service, will form another company investors might find attractive. The breakup is expected to take effect by mid-2026. In the meantime, CNN and its celebrity anchors are in
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