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Buying A Media Job
by Sherman H. Skolnick
So, you want to be a talking head on a local TV station. And read the
alleged "news" from the idiot machine.
Requirements:
1. You have to be about 28 years old.
2. If a woman, blondes preferred. Light-skinned blacks permitted BUT must
look like a doll.
3. Must be able to read items about bloody wrecks, airplane disasters, and
tornados without showing much visible emotion.
4. You cannot show any politics in what you are reading.
In most of the bigger markets, such as Chicago, New York, and Los
Angeles, you have to buy the job through the local, handful of celebrity
lawyers. The terms are as follows: in a three-year conract, paying a big
buck, you have to agree to pay under the table, a minimum of 15 per cent, in
front, in cash, of the total amount you would receive in the first year of
the contract. Of that, it is to be divided up as follows: one third to the
union business agent, one third to the celebrity lawyer, and one third to the
news director or station manager.
I have been on the periphery of the media since the early 1960s. A few
examples have come to my attention. Because of our role as crusaders opening
up scandals, items that are suppressed by the monopoly press are sometimes
referred to us, on the sly, together with the corroborating details. Media
people in key places confide in us. We never, never, never divulge sources.
Judges that we have fingered publicly for bribery have numerous times over
the decades, put me, as the head of our court reform group, in jail and
prison for so-called "contempt of court", for absolutely refusing to divulge
sources.
Over the decades as well I have become a sort of father confessor of
media people with a problem. [I once taught civic investigation at a Chicago
broadcast school.] Media people confide their problems to us, in confidence,
knowing that we will never reveal who they are and will oftentimes come up
with a proposed solution to save their neck and their job. I have usually met
with such people in the middle of the night at some out of the way meeting
place. What follows is a typical example:
"Sherman, the so and so's fired me. And I am only in the first year of my
three-year contract. BUT, they cannot do that!" the media person forcefully
exclaimed. "I paid in cash, in front, the fifteen per cent as required. I
bought the job. The money was divided up on the business agent of the union,
this special lawyer that handles the buying and selling of media jobs, and
the balance went to the news director. I was also of course the right age and
look. Hey, the job belongs to me. They cannot fire me!" he emphasized.
He outlined to me how this system works throughout the media industry.
He offered other examples, some of which we already knew about from talking
to other media people.
"I'll try my best to help you and keep all this confidential. After all,
you and your pals have in the past given me the lowdown on several suppressed
scandals, and gave me the rundown on the inside dirt at your outlet. So I owe
you one." I told him.
"I bought the job, that's the system. They cannot fire me!" he repeated,
his voice showing his anger.
In my most compassionate manner, I quietly told him. "Well, you are
unfortunately in the same category, I am sorry to tell you, as a bank robber
on the way from the stick-up. A crooked cop beats you up and rips off the
loot for himself. And you want to sue for brutality and recovery of your
property. Such a lawsuit is not allowed. It is, the courts say, against
public policy, since you bought the job. It is against the public good to be
buying and selling jobs, such as in the mass media." I showed I understood
his plight.
"Listen, as an alternative, what kind of dirt do you have on the
celebrity lawyer, the union business agent, and the news director? Maybe that
would pressure the bastards to leave you alone." I asked.
"Why? You think I should turn them in to the IRS with this? The so and
so's do not report the job pay-off money on their taxes." He responded.
"Aw, come on now, don't be silly. Right before the April 15th each year,
the media honchos go along with the IRS and report a few evaders the IRS has
fingered. So as to scare the rest of the public into sending in their form
1040 without question, just like it is required instead of actually,
voluntary. The media bosses seldom go on the air with IRS corruption like we
dig up." I told him.
No lawyer would undertake to sue for him. So, he went on to some other
line of work. Being handsome and personable, he was suitable for being a
friendly, productive salesman.
Some long-time network reporters that confided in me were worried about
their jobs and their pensions. A foreign outfit was trying to take over the
news operation division. I gave them some inside data we compiled on the
sharks trying to grab their section of the network. So, all of a sudden the
veteran correspondents were sneaking by some hot, political assassination
type items, during the night on the radio end. Sort of to scare a few
would-be network grabbers. It worked.
In the process of all this, we found out the requirements for network
correspondent to cover, for example, the White House: [1] As a woman, they
have to start out about 40 years old. The networks push away women White
House reporters if they are over 58 years old. Men, however, can cover the
White House even if they are over 60, but not women. It is a form of known
discrimination. Network news anchor faces usually do not have their contracts
renewed if they approach 60 years old. Once in a while there is an exception.
Some of the younger reporters for networks that cover the White House,
are actually assets of foreign intelligence agencies. One such reporter keeps
track of all of the President's phone calls and meetings with persons in the
White House. Hey,how is that done? Supposedly for a price, he will share the
data with a reporter working on piecing together some supposed White House
scandal.
In the 1960s and 1970s, I was often on the commercial TV for 40 seconds
or so, talking about the voting cases that I brought in the federal courts
being I am self-educated in law. I was called "Mr. One Man, One Vote"
referring to the numerous election district reapportionment cases that I
brought and won on behalf of myself and all voters similarly situated. But in
1988 I got put on the crap list for being too outspoken. I had confronted Don
Hewitt, top honcho of CBS's "60 Minutes" Program. I gave him a lot of
specifics about the buying and selling of media jobs. I was naive, I now
realize, to believe that "60 Minutes" would expose this dirty business.
Don Hewitt screamed all over me and in so many words, told me I will
never again be allowed on the TV anymore. After that, the only time you could
see me on the TV as starting in 1991 when I became a regular panelist, later
moderator/producer, of a non-commercial, public access weekly Cable TV Show
in Chicago, called "Broadsides". The media types, by the way, are absolutely
forbidden to mention that our popular Cable TV Show exists, or, for that
matter, that I exist. So, you want to be on the air on commercial TV,
huh? Fine. Be the right type and look and buy your job with cash in front. It
is the system and so far, no one in authority is prepared to change it.
Stay tuned.
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Since 1958, Mr.Skolnick has been a court reformer. Since 1963,
founder/chairman, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, disclosing
certain instances of judicial and other bribery and political murders. Since
1991 a regular panelist, and since 1995, moderator/producer, of
one-hour,weekly public access Cable TV Show, "Broadsides", Cablecast on
Channel 21, 9 p.m. each Monday in Chicago. For a heavy packet of printed
stories, send $5.00 [U.S. funds] and a stamped, self-addressed business sized
envelope [4-1/4 x 9-1/2 #10 size] WITH THREE STAMPS ON IT, to Citizen's
Committee to Clean Up the Courts, Sherman H. Skolnick, Chairman, 9800 South
Oglesby Ave., Chicago IL 60617-4870. Office, 7 days, 8 a.m. to midnight,
(773) 375-5741 [PLEASE, no "just routine calls]. Before sending FAX, call.
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