The compensation is in the marketing value they receive as a return. And yes, that's enormously more valuable than salary in a job like this. Sorry that flew over your head. If it didn't pay 'fair' value then there wouldn't be hundreds auditioning for it. At that point they would need to raise their pay to find…

They are aspiring models and the huge exposure creates opportunities for them to launch into fulltime modeling careers. It's a steppingstone job, not a career landing place. The independent gigs they land as a result of being an NFL cheerleader is how they earn.

But they get to earn on the side by the other promotional gigs that the team lines up for them. They also get marketing and exposure to build their own brand as a model because that's what the vast majority of them are ... aspiring part time models using the high profile NFL cheerleader position as a launchpad in…

Actually you're wrong. There are some that specialize in aggregating gossip like you're referring to. But there are also journalists, at least on gawker, and I've read a few on deadspin, with their own sources they cultivate who go out and conduct on the record original interviews and source material. Some of the…

Can't really tell if that was snark or not but they'd been only been married two years.

It was a legitimate criticism. If you're going to critique someone's speaking skills as not being commensurate to his education, you should at least proofread your criticism. You set yourself up for abuse on this one by discrediting yourself with your very own hypocrisy. No need to be crying and lashing out at other…

No matter how you try and rationalize it you're still saying racism is excusable if a teenager is "responding to something complicated in their lives". Horse Shit.

Why should it matter? When is mass murder ever justified?

Because we have strict constructionists like Antonin Scalia sitting on the Supreme Court who believes the law should be strictly interpreted like it was in the 1700s. But even then the pseudo-originalists get it wrong by missing out on including the "well regulated militia" aspect of the framer's intent.