On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:05 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:17 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Being too emotional and sentimental doesn't have to conflict with >> handling the soft stories well. >> > > WIth *not* handling soft stories well. I suppose - though I guess my image > of the soft stories that Today often does invovles the interviewer cutting > to the lone tear slowly running down their own cheek (sorry, again, I did > just re-watch Broadcast News). >
So now I see two more stories - a little old by now, but I am just finding them. One is that TMZ reports that it was Lauer who did not want to work with Curry, and was one of those responsible for forcing her out; and Curry knows it and is pissed about it (they describe her has turning away when Lauer went in for the goodbye on camera kiss). And NBC News President Steve Capus has said that Curry's problem was that she was not interested in or good at the fluffy segments, because her real passion is reporting the international stories. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/30/steve-capus-ann-curry-today_n_1639906.html?utm_hp_ref=tv&ir=TV(see below for excerpts) NBC, as has been their recent history, were dicks in this situation. But it tells you just about everything you need to know about the state of TV news that someone as light-weight as Ann Curry is seen as too "hard news" to do celebrity interviews on the Today Show. Someone in this thread posted that Curry likes to get sentimental about hard news stories, which in my book made her a fluff specialist, but at NBC News makes her too serious to interview Reality Show starlets and celebrity cookbook authors. ************ "Capus candidly told THR that he thought Curry had not been right for the job in many respects. He said he agreed with interviewer Marisa Guthrie that Curry had faltered in the cooking segments, movie star interviews and fluffy features that make up a large portion of "Today." "I think her real passion is built around reporting on international stories," he said. "It’s tough to convey a sincere interest in something if you don’t possess it ... and you could tell with her, you can tell with any anchor, whether they’re into it or not. And I think we’ve now come up with a role that will play to her strengths.” Capus said that, although he felt it was right to give Curry a chance at the top "Today" job (she had put in fourteen years as newsreader and already been passed over once before), he had had no choice but to make the change. “We gave her a year to prove herself, and ultimately we came to the conclusion that she had played at the highest level she could," he said. "When you’re in the major leagues of our profession, you’ve got to continue to be at peak performance in order to stay there." -- 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
