The odds are overwhelmingly high that, if you are a high paid on-air teevee personality who is kept

[Stinky The Clown]

off the air as a result of the termination of your contract, that you quit, and weren't fired.

If you were fired, then you'd be free to do and say any damned thing you wanted to.

If you agreed to restrictions, that would be in return for something - likely the dissolution of the final years of your contract.

We'll know the facts when the parties to the deal want us to know the facts.

[babylonsister]

1. So? High-paid personalities are smart enough to do what is best

for themselves. If it was inevitable, take the money, run, and then promote your pov to the highest bidder, with integrity. Sounds about right.

[tabatha]

2. But Schuster was fired?

[SharonAnn]

3. "Taken off the air " doesn't negate the contract. Not the same`as breaking the contract.

[JI7]

4. it could be both, if you know you aren't going to have the freedom

to do your job the way you want to , you just decide you are better off leaving and getting what you can .

[snot]

5. You know what? I'd just like to see

breakdowns of the no. of conservative talking heads vs. the no. of genuinely liberal ones. (Leave out the genuinely neutral.)

And I'd like to see those nos. for each year during the last 40 years.

And I'd like to see the no. of prominent conservative talking heads who lost their jobs -- whether they quit, were fired, or whatever the story was -- and the no. of liberal ones, for each year.

And then I'd like to see what the totals for each year and the percentages for each year.

Because various reasons can be given for why any one person left. And there are various ways to push people out -- don't give them as many opportunities, make them work harder, don't let them do or say what they think they should do or say, don't pay them what they're worth, as well as simply firing them outright. But the end result is the same.