Nice gig for the former William Morris Chairman/CEO turned independent consultant Jim Wiatt to be one of the 9 directors on the board of AOL when that company separates from Time Warner in December. Wiatt joins Michael Powell (former FCC Chairman) Michael Powell, Pat Mitchell (former president/CEO of PBS and The Paley Center For Media), and Fredric Reynolds (former CBS Corp EVP/CFO and president/CEO of Viacom Television Stations Group).
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In the words of Ari Emanuel – ummmm next….
Well he sold one great company down the tubes and hurt lots of people and families…so I guess he’s qualified…
i’m sure he’s thrilled. i expect many more honorary boards to come. he’s a player, he’s an insider, he’s obsolete.
Great news for all of you investors looking to make a killing. Time to short AOL. Jim is the greatest destroyer of value for investors since Bernie Madoff.
Ah come on now- he just needs a few computer classes
does he know how to use a thumb drive or is he able to print a word doc on his own-
CONVERSATION AT AOL HR–
Dipshit AOL Guy 1: “Hmmmm, who shall we add to the board on this sinking ship?”
Dipshit AOL Guy 2: “Hey, I know! Let’s hire that guy that bent over, got snookered by Ari Emmanuel and therein busted up the oldest and best agency Hollywood ever knew!”
Dipshit AOL Guy 3: “Brilliant idea! That long-in-the-tooth, already-into-alzheimer’s-last-trimester-visionary is just who we want to send out the word that we’re forward thinking and current!”
Disphit AOL Guy 4: “Yeah, well Marge Schott isn’t available, so he’s the next best thing – Done and done!”
Sympathy card is in the mail to AOL. Hope they hold their board meetings on the ground floor as it’s going to be a long wait for his vacant expressions to hike it up the stairwell.
Great hire! Perfect for a company that is nothing more than an internet ad-dump!
Well, he killed one company off and now he can get ready to kill another one!! AOL is dying already so perhaps Jim is being brought on to put it down faster. Yo mama, bitchin!!
AOL has become nothing more than a sleezy ad-dump on crappy websites that are being uploaded faster than maggots devouring a corpse. Perfect place for Wyatt.
Someone must have owed him a big favor.