I am glad that my Communications degree has gotten me far places in the Media world. Having a father who was the president, or some high powered ranking person seems to open more doors for unqualified people. And let's face it, Ms. Bush is unqualified.
On Aug 31, 4:24 pm, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Steve Rhodes<[email protected]> wrote: > > Surely there are journalists with more experience than a couple of good interviews on Today show pushing a book (which they should know is very different from actually reporting a story even if most of the actual work is done by her producers) who could cover education and other "non-political" stories. > > If they were smart, they would have hired one of their most promising reporters at one of their O&Os to do one report a month. > > And if it is about ratings, should have Rachel Maddow do one report a month (not that she isn't already busy, but it would certainly get a bigger audience than Jenna > > even though she has a big family). > > Or if they really wanted Jenna, they really wanted to be stupid enough to > > hire Jenna, they should have started her at the DC station and waited to put > > her on Today until she had some experience. > > Unless she is amazing, there will be a lot of criticism of her first > > report this month. > > And I do hope that NBC is criticized just has harshly on Countdown as Fox > > would have been if they had done the same stupid thing. > > The Today Show isn't about journalism. The only reason a serious > journalist would pursue a spot on the show is for a big paycheck or > hope that the national exposure would lead to a more lucrative job in > serious journalism. > > If you didn't tear your hair out about Maria Shriver back in the day, > there's no reason to start now. > > Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
