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In reply to the discussion: McDaniel eyes big payout after NBC drama ($600,000 and more for doing nothing) [View all]SunSeeker
(51,772 posts)She used her new NBC platform to push a dangerous election lie.
Dan Rather got fired for a lot less. Dan Rather left the anchor desk in 2005 following the Killian documents controversy, in which he presented unauthenticated documents in a news report on President George W. Bush's Vietnam Warera service in the National Guard. He continued to work with CBS until 2006, when he was abruptly fired. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-rather-cbs-news-corporate-media_n_1531121
In September 2007, Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and its former parent company Viacom. Rather accused the network and its ownership and management of making him a "scapegoat" in the Killian story. An intermediate New York state appeals court dismissed the lawsuit in September 2009, and the New York Court of Appeals refused to reinstate it in January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20091002082508/http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090929/tv_nm/us_rather_cbs_1
I imagine Ronna's lawsuit would meet the same fate, unless NBC has really shitty lawyers.
Real world indeed.