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Is the recent drama with Conan O’Brien over at
NBC hitting a little too close to home? Perhaps you’ve seen
this sort of thing before? Like, maybe…at your own office?
Today, NPR compared the recent
high-profile contract disputes between the
network and the
soon-to-be-former “The Tonight
Showâ€Â host to
a ”surprisingly familiar workplace
mess,†where NBC’s efforts to get
around the contract it made with [...]
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