克林頓千金當記者被指“少幹多拿”每分鐘賺近3萬美元

Chelsea Clinton earned an annual salary of $600,000 at NBC News before switching to a Month-to-month contract earlier this year, sources with knowledge of the agreement told POLITICO.

Clinton, who joined NBC News as a special correspondent in November 2011, was up for renewal or nonrenewal this year. Instead, the sources said, the network decided to keep her on the payroll on a month-to-month basis so the two parties could sever ties if Clinton’s mother, Hillary Clinton, runs for president.

As special correspondent, Clinton worked on service-related feature assignments for NBC’s “Rock Center with Brian Williams” until the show’s cancellation in June 2013. Clinton has since worked on packages for NBC Nightly News. In that time, Clinton’s principal occupation has been the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, where she has been a major force in steering her parents’ charitable work in the final years of her mother’s tenure at the State Department, and since.

This April, she announced that she is pregnant. Clinton is due to deliver her first child in the fall, and it’s unclear whether she will resume work with NBC after that.

When Clinton joined NBC, many media critics chafed at the network’s decision to employ a former first daughter with no experience in journalism. The New York Post referred to Clinton as “just another spoiled, aimless child of rich, successful parents chauffeured through adulthood by Mommy and Daddy’s connections.”

Yet Clinton’s appointment did not mark the first time NBC Universal had hired children of high-ranking politicians. In 2009, it hired George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna Bush Hager to serve as a correspondent on the “Today” show. In 2011, it hired Sen. John McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain as a contributor on MSNBC. The details of Clinton’s deal with NBC have been closely held since she joined the network.美國前總統克林頓與前國務卿希拉里的千金切爾西，身爲全國廣播公司(NBC)的特約記者，雖然很少在節目上露面，但日前卻被揭其合約年薪，高達60萬美元。美國媒體報道，34歲的切爾西自2011年起加入NBC，雖然上節目的時間不多，但收入非常可觀，每分鐘可以賺26724美元。

據悉，有消息人士稱，近日NBC已經將切爾西的合約由年制轉爲月制，如果希拉里參選總統，切爾西將會離開NBC。對此，NBC的發言人僅表示該公司將繼續和切爾西保持良好的工作關係，拒絕透露現存合約的任何細節。

切爾西在其參與錄製的時事雜誌節目《洛克菲勒中心》於去年6月停播後，便轉做晚間新聞。今年4月，切爾西宣佈自己懷孕的消息，將於今年秋季誕下首名孩子，至於她產後是否會恢復記者工作不得而知。

當初NBC決定吸納毫無新聞報道經驗的切爾西成爲新員工時，引來媒體批評人士的怒罵。《紐約郵報》更譏諷切爾西是靠父母關係找工作的富二代。

事實上，切爾西並不是NBC僱傭的首位前總統的千金。2009年，小布什的女兒詹納加入《今日》節目，擔任一名記者。