Bored and reading the Sunday supplements

In light of the attempt of some local officials in Clayton County to get giant raises, I noted that Billings, Montana pays its mayor $9,600 a year. I always think of everyone in television bringing in the big bucks, but a 27-year-old television news editor in Kearney, Nebraska earns $24,500 while a 23-year-old television production assistant in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma brings in $20,000. So much for my plan to lower my voice, get a face transplant and go into television. (When I first got into this business when Lincoln was still president, a friend told me I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers). But lest you totally despair Jon Steward makes a cool $1.5 million and news anchor Anderson Cooper makes $2 million.