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(43,136 posts)not holding my breath
stir the pot too much within the confines of the power club and yer arse gets binned out of your job
a bit before my time (I was 6 years old when the shit started to hit the fan), but just ask Phil Donahue circa 2002/3 (Chris Matthews was an ASSHOLE, still often is)
Phil Donahue On MSNBC Firing: Chris Matthews Was Threatened By Me (VIDEO)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/phil-donahue-chris-matthews-msnbc-firing_n_2926643
Legendary talk show host Phil Donahue appeared on HuffPostLive Thursday to talk about his firing from MSNBC, the medias role during the Iraq War, and his fraught relationship with Chris Matthews.
Donahue was a rare anti-war voice on television during the run-up to the war, but he was fired in early 2003, even though his show was a highly rated one on the network. A leaked memo later revealed that NBC executives considered him a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.
As it turned out, one of the people reportedly pushing for Donahue to leave was Chris Matthews.
New York magazines Gabriel Sherman wrote about Matthews dealings with Donahue in a 2010 article:
Donahues problems only increased when Chris Matthews let it be known that he wanted Donahue off the air. Matthews was a rising force at the network, with a reported salary of $5 million. He cultivated former G.E. CEO Jack Welch and had the ear of NBC CEO Bob Wright (the two summered together on Nantucket). Matthews saw himself as MSNBCs biggest star, and he was upset that the network was pumping significant resources into Donahues show. In the fall of 2002, U.S. News & World Report ran a gossip item that had Matthews saying over lunch in Washington that if Donahue stays on the air, he could bring down the network.
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