Has an executive ever been fired for bad Executive meddling?

This topic can cover any medium.

I ask because I often here stories of executives demanding outrageous changes to a film, the film gets openly criticized, or tanks, and executives look at the director as the reason the movie was bad, and put the blame on him or her. The director loses clout, and the executive keeps their job.

One example I can think of is the director of Wild Hogs did a movie called "Old Dogs" which had a lot of executive changes to make it more family friendly, and the film tanked (and overall sucked). Because of this executives refused to let the director do a Wild Hogs sequel (which may or may not be a good thing. YMMV). even though it was their own fault the movie did lousy.

Has an executive though ever gotten comeuppance for their actions? Maybe not fired, but demoted maybe?

Breaking news: Corporate leadership not held responsible for massive screw-up.

They aren't even held responsibile for their accounting practices.

One thing that annoys me often, is how there's this constant assumption Executive Meddling is _always_ bad. Because we never hear of the times when the system work. Actually, our wiki page says it best:

Recent example: MT Carney at Disney. Inexperienced in working in Hollywood, many of the ad campaigns she handled were half-assed and not well put together. She was fired after a year (at a company known for having people with long tenures).

Star Wars and The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari come to mind (the former being the result of just about everyone meddling, it seems).

Alan Ladd Jr. was cool about Star Wars. Also, we wouldn't have Blade Runner, The Right Stuff, Once Upon A Time In America or Braveheart if not for Ladd's enthusiasm for those projects.

There is a difference between general support and good executive interference. I think Ladd just saw great potential in those projects and thus gave it a great deal of support when others didn't see the value in it, he didn't get personally involved in the creative process.

And a lot of studio execs tend to be virtually nameless, so if they got fired for screwing up a project we rarely hear about it.

Star Wars, and it's sequels, were still hampered by executive meddling, just executive meddling by some executives and executive protection from...well, from Alan Ladd, Jr his own self. The one good exec doesn't negate the behavior of the ones he was protecting Lucas from. And besides, Ladd wasn't trying to tell Lucas how to tell his story.

You're talking about the original trilogy here and not the prequels, right?

That would be A New Hope only. Lucas had the financial clout to personally finance every Star Wars film after that and only relied on Fox for distribution, specifically because all of the nagging and stress from during the first film (Lucas was diagnosed with hypertension it was so stressful).

Jeff Jarret lost TNA, Steve Jobs got bought out. That's really how executives pay for screwing up their own work, by the competition.

The executives were horrible to Star Wars. They gave Lucas shit for the fact that Chewbacca doesn't wear pants. He's a hero for putting up with them, if nothing else.