How much did ABC pay Darren Wilson?

[kentuck]

How much will FOX pay him?

The guy will probably never have to work as a cop ever again? He can make a good living off the right-wing media.

From the office of Supeme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, US vs Wiliams 1992, stated that under no circumstance should a suspect under investigation be allowed to offer testimony or exculpatory evidence before a grand jury.

This should not be the end of this story.

[helpmetohelpyou]

1. They will say nothing

As far as I'm aware no news agency pays for interviews or at least I have never heard of one before

[nc4bo]

3. The voice inside my head say how about a cut from all those advertisements....

:rotfl: so not technically getting paid by any network.

I stand by my opinion that the murdering, yellowstained piece of shite is making lots of cash on his media prostitution tour.

Nothing is for free except for Darren, The Shivering Coward, Wilson.

[helpmetohelpyou]

15. There's ways to get around from saying they paid him I'm sure

There was also from what I read some type of fund set up for him where idiots donated money

It was close to 1/2 million
Add that to sometype of buyout the city might do for his pension
so he could walk away with close to a million

[Blue_Tires]

6. They don't "officially" pay for the interview itself

there are ways to setup the compensation to make it a lot less blatant...

[Sienna86]

13. Exactly. For instance, they'll pay to use a photograph.

They get around the "no pay for an interview" quite easily. i think it's unethical to not disclose all forms of remuneration.

[Spazito]

12. If there was no agreement for compensation then there would be no need for...

negotiations between the killer and multiple media outlets.

Compensation was put forward, compensation that was enough for the killer to choose ABC over the other outlets.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. On CNN right now there's a body language expert

who notes how robotic he looked during the interview, how his facial expressions were flat, opining that his responses to questions by Stephanopoulos were very rehearsed and not spontaneous.

You can bet your bottom dollar that everything Darren Wilson said to the grand jury and to the public in his interview was rehearsed hour after hour with his attorney, in a way designed to evade legal difficulty.

[RobinA]

7. Oh Please

if you put me on CNN and asked me what I did at work yesterday I'd come across as robotic and flat. I'm not a celebrity used to and trained to talk on camera. All this says about Wilson is that he's out of his element and nervous.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. What an incredible nut you are

Oh please? LOL

Did you shoot someone? Did you spend hours rehearsing with an attorney to go before a grand jury? Did you spend hours being coached on what to say to avoid criminal liability? I'm a retired attorney and I can guarantee you that every attorney coaches his client, even for depositions in civil matters and especially in criminal cases where a murder charge is a possibility. The attorneys I've seen on television commenting on Wilson's TV interview seem to have the same response: "very well coached."

God, some of the people on this website truly live in another world beyond reality.'t be surprised if Wilson even rem


ON EDIT: Sorry for coming on a little strong and I apologize. But I'm near my wit's end of some people on this website ignoring reality and coming to the defense of poor Officer Darren Wilson. After playing the role of the righteous cop with his lawyer during coaching sessions, I wouldn't be surprised if Wilson doesn't even clearly remember how it actually went down any more.

[HereSince1628]

4. How much did CNN pay ABC?

[Blue_Tires]

5. The number being floated around the rumor mill is $500k

Of course there is a premium for the first exclusive interview, so no other network is going that high for subsequent interviews...

So all told, Wilson has cleared cool million so far...In some twisted way this country is incentivizing the shootings of unarmed black folks....

[KingCharlemagne]

10. Nothing 'twisted' about it. The reductio ad absurdum of capitalism's insatiable

drive to 'commodify' everything.

[Sienna86]

14. All the money in the world won't give him peace.

He has to deal with his conscience and will always look over his shoulder. I don't think George Zimmerman is having a good quality of life.

[Nye Bevan]

8. Zero.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/25/abc-news-after-casey-anthony-debacle-bans-paying-news-subjects-for-photos.html

[bluesbassman]

16. Times change Nye, that was three years ago.

ABC paid him and it'll come out sooner or later what the real number was.

[Spazito]

17. From your link...

"After taking a public-relations hit in several high-profile cases, ABC will no longer be buying photos or video as a way of getting a news subject to cooperate—a process that had become a fig leaf for purchasing interviews."

Not the same as banning compensation at all.

[bigwillq]

9. When does Michael Brown get to tell his story?

[WinkyDink]

18. Is that just a Scalia comment, or is it law?