My new piece for the Daily Banter is up. It deals with the possible return of Jeff Zucker to the world of the top-level TV executive -- and how it proves that there's no such thing as a lifetime of banishment once you've been crowned king, no matter how incompetent your reign was.
Here's the opening shot:
"Here’s a little something just about everyone in the television business knows: Once you become a high-powered executive, it’s almost impossible to fuck yourself and your reputation so badly that you’ll never work again.
Let’s say you’re some poor mid-level schmuck, doing whatever it is you do right now for a living, and you almost single-handedly make, let’s say, some gargantuan mistake that turns your company into a worldwide laughingstock and threatens to crater an upcoming multi-million dollar merger that’s going to make it the most powerful organization of its kind in the world — there’s a pretty good chance you’ll be radioactive for about the next hundred or so years. Not in television, though — and not if you’re an executive..."
Read the Rest Here
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