Yeah, you might have thought that even if CNN or whichever company decided it was no longer worth the risk of keeping on a loose-cannon type reporter, there's a huge market of alternative and semi-alternative news media that would surely love to hire the hero/heroine who took on Trump.
Then again, those companies don't pay as well as CNN does - then again, again, it'd be amazing if some older hacks who were already financially secure just thought "ahh, fuck it" and put principles ahead of self-interest.
Then again, again, again, older people are more likely to have kids, and there's the sheer nastiness of this administration, as I've already mentioned...