Cooper May Get $50 Million CNN Contract For Next Five Years

TV Newser reports that CNN anchor Anderson Cooper--who once tracked The Mole!--will soon be rolling with a fatter bankroll. The rumored figure: $50 million over the next five years. As Newser comments, "That's a Katie Couric sort of salary." True. And best of all, no one's questioning whether Cooper plagiarized someone else's colonoscopy back in March of 2000.

With news of the coming ka-ching, one wonders how this will affect the cable news landscape, especially where the big network show-ponies are concerned. As recently as last February, Eat The Press related news of Keith Olbermann's salary negotiations, which earned the always-on-the-YouTube editorializer a modest $4 million over the length of a four-year deal. At the time, Olbermann was just keeping up with the Coopers: Anderson reupped at a similar $4 million in January of 2007.

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