The Mark Simone Show on 710 WOR.

Well, hey, it's Friday. It's President's Day weekend. A lot to get to this hour.

This will make you feel good. They say there's never any good news. CNN is in big trouble and is going to be

making massive cuts. They got to cut 50 million in costs immediately. Actually more than 50 million,

but much more than 50 million. CNN very, very low ratings for a long, long time. MSNBC

does better than CNN, but MSNBC doesn't do that well.

And CNN really low ratings.

And it's always a few hundred thousand people watching.

So there's going to be massive cuts, 100 million, 150 million.

But the new CNN boss has been told to cut 50 million in on-air salaries.

So a lot of these anchors are going to be taking huge cuts.

You know, Anderson Cooper gets 20 million a year.

Figure that gets cut in half right away.

And it's justified.

You know, he may be great at what he does, but it doesn't attract a lot of viewers.

You know, if you're Hannity and you're getting 3 million viewers a night,

and you're Anderson Cooper and you're getting 400,000, why pay him so much?

Why hand him all that money?

So he'll be taking a big pay cut.

Wolf Blitzer earns about 15 million a

year could you imagine that's a nice guy wolf flitzer but uh and i've been on with him i dozed off

twice during it it's impossible to stay awake watching or listening to wolf blitzer 15 million a year. Jake Tapper. I don't know. Sometimes he's a nice guy, sometimes not. He's a strange guy, a strange guy. Jake Tapper, 8.5 million. Now look at this. Chris Wallace. Now, don't you say to yourself, how the hell does this guy get a job on television?

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