On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:14 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been reading a little more about the Today Show transition story > today, and have come upon a contradiction that I can not resolve. Some > stories say that the perception has been that Curry was too emotional and > sentimental; other stories say that the perception has been that she had > too much of a "hard news" background and bias, and did not handle the soft > stories well. My only limited exposure to her suggests the former, not the > latter. > > The consistent thread through all of these stories is that she had "bad > chemistry" with Matt. I guess that means she did not playfully touch his > arm (or seductively clobber him over the head) the way Katie used to. But I > have not been able to figure out if this is a problem with how their > relationship was perceived on air, or if this is some kind of code for Matt > letting people know he wanted to see a switch. > > > I"ve never thought of Ann Curry as a hard news person. I don't think she had much depth. She was a newsreader but didn't have much personality beyond that. It showed all the years she read news stories and continued as a host.
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