Notes
(1) We said there could be big disparities in the data, but all seem to point to outrageously high compensation for the big honchos of the US media. Loyal reader Peter Pavimentov as furnished the following data:
From Internet, April 19, 2019, not confirmed:
Anderson Cooper $ 100 million a year
Sean Hannity $80 million a year
Brian Williams $ 40 million a year
Shepard Smith $ 20 million a year
Bret Baier $ 16 million a year
Wolf Blitzer $ 16 million a year
Chris Wallace $ 16 million a year
Scott Pelley $ 16 million a year
Lester Holt $ 12 million a year
Martha MacCallum $ 8 million a year
Tucker Carlson $ 6 million a year
Jake Tapper $ 4 million a year
Bill Hemmer $ 3 million a year
Philip A Farruggio is a son and grandson of Brooklyn, New York, longshoremen. He has been a freelance columnist since 2001, with more than 300 of his essays posted, besides The Greanville Post, on sites like Consortium News, Information Clearing House, Global Research, Nation of Change, World News Trust, Op-Ed News, Dissident Voice, Counterpunch, Activist Post, Sleuth Journal, Truthout and many others. His blog can be read in full on World News Trust., where he writes a great deal about the need to cut military spending drastically and send the savings back to save our cities. Philip has an internet interview show, "It's the Empire... Stupid" with producer Chuck Gregory, and can be reached at paf1222@bellsouth.net
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