Susan Zirinsky has criticized documentarians who pay their contributors as she urges her fellow execs to “keep your moral compass.” The former CBS News President, who is now running CBS…
, joked “you may as well strip me naked and beat me” rather than asking her to pay participants and sources.
“Ken Burns never pays, Alex Gibney never pays, but there is a camp that feels you should pay,” she added. “But for us if you pay someone you will never believe that what they are telling you is something you want to hear. I will walk away before one dime is given for a story.”'The Traitors': Canada's Crave Buys U.S., UK & Australian Versions In Rare Finished Tape Deal
Zirinksy launched See It Now around one and a half years ago and the company is producing content for both Paramount’s brands including Paramount+ and Smithsonian Channel, along with pitching to third parties such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. “It’s great to produce within the [Paramount] family but if you produce something from the outside and if you succeed you become more special,” she added, stating that See It Now is currently making 51 hours of content including the likes of
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