----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:20 PM Subject: Re: Scouted: CNN's Brown played golf through shuttle story
> At 12:09 PM 2/4/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: > >> Clearly, it wasn't in his contract. > > > >In the real world of business, John, there is an implicit contract as well > >as an explicit contract. > > Obviously, they differ in their opinons on the nature of the implicit > contract. Personally, I'm shocked that in Brin-L of all places, everyone > assumes that the big corporation and not the employee is right about the > "implicit" details of the contract. But, this is a no brainer for anyone in the corporate world. If Gautam and I know the rules, I'm sure he did too. No hard feelings, but even hard working government bureaucrats have different rules than those who live in the corporate world. > >Coverage of stories such as these can significantly affect long term > >viewership. IIRC, CNN made itself a multi-billion dollar company based on > >its coverage of the Gulf War. > > The industrial media complex has a tendency to overhype minor news events > into major stories - and Brown correctly saw through this that his return > to CNN would not have done much for the company and would have imposed > significant costs on himself. Then he isn't worth what they pay him. I certainly expect a sound business decision will be to recognize the bad decision they made in hiring him. > > Indeed, as it was, from National Review: > CNN WINS SHUTTLE RATINGS [Rod Dreher] > CNN scored a rare victory over the Fox News Channel in Saturday's coverage > of the shuttle disaster. No secret as to why: anchor Miles O'Brien. He's > the regular CNN Saturday morning host, and, as luck (if that is the word) > would have it, he also is their space correspondent. The man knows his > beat, and was terrific in that crisis. > > I'll say it again: Kudos to Mr. Brown. Well, if he doesn't help CNN get ratings, why pay him millions? He may have done a good job showing he isn't worth the money, if other folks do his job better than he does. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
