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Journalist Sharing Their Salary
- kbenson 7y agoThis one is pretty interesting/funny (more so if it's not fake): Chief Media Correspondent CNN $1,054,000 White cis male 15 New York Pretend ABC didn't cover up Epstein's crimes / Report every minor thing about Fox News and Trump / Envy Sean Spicer's dance skills
- 52-6F-62 7y agoIt’s fake, and it’s poisoning the data pool.
- kbenson 7y agoHrm, I kind of assumed the epatein stuff might have been one network emoyee laying some blamr on another network, as well as maybe acknowledging much of the media's general overreaction at times (which Trump plays upon), as well as being a bit self-effacing, but on a fresh look, it does seem a lot more obviously fake. :/
- kbenson 7y agoI wanted to edit this comment to fix the "Epstein" misspelling I made while on my phone, but I can't edit it (and the delete option is also gone), but I can still edit my top-level comment if I want. I checked back on my phone, and it showed the edit, but clicking it just acted as if I had used the comment anchor link. I haven't seen that before.
- emmelaich 7y agoRow 279 is also .. er. Made up. > "Epstein|Didn't|Kill|Himself|4|Hillary|Clinton"
- open-paren 7y agoI recently wrote one of these salary-sharing surveys for my college. Making one survey that is comprehensible and also includes all the different compensation options is HARD. I'm impressed by their ability to do so in this survey.
- CryoLogic 7y agoThese salaries are higher than I expected
- pmoriarty 7y agoWhen people report their salaries, I always wonder how we can know they're telling the truth.
- JeanSebTr 7y agoWhat would they gain from anonymous lies?
- GeneralTspoon 7y agoWelcome to the internet, you must be new here :) Jokes aside, there are at least a few suspicious looking responses on that doc relating to Epstein like "Job Duties: Covering up Epstein's crimes to protect the Clintons". So to answer the question, I guess they get to spread their views on particular news networks they disagree with.
- quicklime 7y agoNot that I think this is happening, but in theory they could bump up the averages and use that as ammo the next time they're negotiating their compensation.
- baron816 7y agoYikes. Makes me appreciate my SWE career.
- undoware 7y agoToo bad a functional fourth estate is a dependency for, you know, western democratic capitalism. Less puckishly: What I feel upon reading this is sort of like that feeling when you find out some bad piece of news about climate change. It's bad enough on its own, but what it implies about the overall health of the national and international socioeconomic context, which, as SWE I (like you) depend on for my survival, is enough to keep one up at night. Who, among folks smart enough to earn six figures writing code, will deign to don gumboots? And if they don't, who will? And what happens to us when that person proves incompetent, irregular, desperate, uninformed, or lackadaisical -- all the things that (under capitalism) a healthy salary is supposed to ward against?
- Semaphor 7y agoConsidering stuff like > Covering up Epstein's crimes to protect the Clintons I guess this whole thing is absolutely meaningless?
- 52-6F-62 7y agoIt appeared to be better a few days ago when it was first posted. The form was public and anonymous and it became popular so the trolls got a hold of it or so it appears. Unfortunately it seems that way now.
- paul7986 7y agocis white male... whats the term for a white male that wasnt born a male?
- dang 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21528854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21528854