On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:22 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.
I am going to come in on Jena's side here. I can't remember exactly which Bush twin she is, but she would have to be twice as vapid and insipid as I remember the worst of those two as being as callow college students to be anywhere near as bad as the typical Today Show correspondent. The ship of journalistic integrity sailed on that show a long time ago. I have seen a few people drag Maria Shriver into this, but that is unfair - Shriver may have been there because she was a babe, but I don't think many people really got her Kennedy connection - and she was actually pretty good at reading the news. Jena is more in the Tiki Barber category than the Maria Shriver category, and I don't think she could possible be any more insubstantial that he is. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
