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[–] KosherHiveKicker 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Thank you sooooo much for asking!


Her stint at NBC was a disaster, perhaps because it ran so contrary to her instincts. “Most of us were baffled [by the hire], because she never even spoke to the press,” says an NBC veteran. “She’d walk by with the imperial stare, looking forward, and interacted not at all.”The feeling inside NBC was that she had been hired to maintain access to and curry favor with the Clintons. When news broke that she had been getting paid $600,000—for a part-time job—NBC staffers were appalled. Most full-time correspondents were being paid far less. The big salary was predicated on the idea that she was already a star, and according to an insider, she started acting like one. Colleagues felt they couldn’t communicate with her directly. Instead, they had to go through her people. And she was hardly present in the office. “There was a joke inside the building that she was the ‘highest-paid ghost’ at NBC,” says a network source. It all might have been excused had she been any good. In the span of nearly three years, however, she filed only a handful of segments—all painfully stiff reports on global do-gooders, plus an attempted comic interview with the Geico Gecko. As the insider puts it, “NBC has made a lot of bad decisions in the last few years, but hiring Chelsea has to be very near the top.”



Chelsea Clinton was getting paid more than most of the top stars on MSNBC - $600,000 per year.....for a PART-TIME POSITION.

Based on these figures, Clinton has earned about $26,724 for each minute she subsequently appeared on air.

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[–] the_magic_man [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

I agree that it was wrong, but it's not nepotism. It's a 3rd party offering the position and Hillary didn't make them do it. I don't like defending her either

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[–] KosherHiveKicker 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Right...right. Chelsea would have landed that job, and salary on her own merit. /s

Not only that but she continued to work there at least until 2014, and at the same pay rate.