Scott Galloway

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A center-left creative community hates that.

There has been a series of unforced errors on the part of the Ellisons vis-a-vis Barry Weiss that have basically dyed their hat black and kind of confirmed the creative community's worst fears.

The idea of... It'll be really interesting to see if they say Barry Weiss is now in charge of CNN because that's when I do think you see hair on fire.

Now...

The notion that they're all gonna walk out tomorrow is just sort of a fantasy because, and I'm not exaggerating, if you were to name 10 of the top TV journalist anchors,

I have probably had offline substantive conversations with half a dozen of them, and it goes something like this.

I realize that this ship is sinking, and I'm thinking about doing a podcast or starting, you know, they all, like, want to figure out the next thing.

And I have an open conversation.

I'm like, okay, how much money are you making?

And they're like this.

I'm like, how long is your contract?

I'm like, don't go fucking anywhere.

You're overpaid.

Yeah, the tier two ones, and I won't name them because they'll get upset, get one to three million.

The tier ones get five to 10, and there's quite a few that make between 10 and 20 million a year.

I think Sean Hannity makes the most, something like 25.

Yeah, and so they all have these visions that they're like, I love the idea of being in control of my own content and starting a sub stack and a podcast and a YouTube channel.

I'm like, yeah, you'll make 60 grand.

And in five or six years, if you work your ass off or work harder than you're working now, and some of them do work hard, most don't, you're gonna get to a half a million or a million bucks a year because you're very talented and people like what you do.