“If you stay in it too long, you become Norma Desmond,” Beck
said Friday during an appearance at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he
accepted a Disruptive Innovation Award from the Tribeca Film Festival. Norma Desmond was a faded screen siren portrayed om 1950 film “Sunset
Boulevard,” and that he would not be able to keep his “soul intact.”
“I remember
feeling, ‘If you do not leave now, you won’t leave with your soul intact.’”
Before working at Fox, Beck worked at CNN, where, he said,
he had an office that looked out on an open-plan office area where producers
and reporters had their desks. “I used to call it the Pit of Despair because
there are all these people plunking out stories like, ‘I just want to hang
myself, I just want to hang myself,’” he said.
In response, a A Fox News spokesperson reportedly emailed Mike
Allen at Politico:
Glenn Beck wasn't trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass. Advertisers fled his show and even Glenn knows what that means in our industry. Yet, we still tried to give him a soft landing. Guess no good deed goes unpunished.
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