"Managing sucks! It sucks even when you like the people you're managing and it's a low-stress position! And I'm sure I don't have to tell you: running CBS News is not a low-stress position. You are going to get blamed by everyone above you for decisions that are made by people below you, and you are going to get blamed by people below you for the decisions that are made by people above you. You're also going to get blamed for your own decisions,"
"This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs. You're Marissa Mayer at Yahoo without the Googler street cred. You're Nancy Dubuc at Vice without the string of hit TV shows. You're Linda Yaccarino at Twitter without the advertiser relationships. You have been hired as a sop to a Trump administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, and you will be made to oversee wave after wave of layoffs"
Management of a legacy broadcast news division is framed as an unwinnable, high-blame role that magnifies stress and responsibility. The appointment functions as a glass cliff, placing leaders into organizations whose decline is structurally inevitable. Broadcast television was built for a media ecosystem that no longer exists; its audience is aging while younger people obtain news on platforms like TikTok. Political alignment with a hostile administration creates additional constraints and obligations. Anticipated outcomes include repeated rounds of layoffs, external blame, forced departures, and eventual shutdown of news divisions driven by mergers and cost-cutting. No realistic operational strategy can reverse the systemic decline of legacy broadcast news under these conditions.
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