On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 5:11 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > For the record, I was joking about both Gregory and Curry, though Kevin's > cynical view may be justified. I can't believe that even NBC would take a > go at Lemon, who is a joke even among people who no longer remember what > actual news is supposed to look like. > > I've seen Lemon as a sorry excuse for a reporter for nearly a decade, going back to when a former friend of mine was interviewed by him during Obama's first presidential campaign (long story for another day), but seeing how executives make decisions in the industry, that we don't recognize his credibility as a journalist matters less to them than him being a known on-air personality (and he's both African-American and homosexual, which NBC could shamelessly promote). I concede my point of view is cynical but also grounded in the reality of the age in which we live where being a journalist is not the primary consideration for anchoring a network newscast. Just as CBS hired Connie Chung 20 years ago and Katie Couric a few years ago to make a big show of their news division not being a bunch of stuffy old white dudes, if Williams is gone (and I again state he shouldn't be let go for the current controversy), NBC will feel compelled to make his replacement a dramatic change, and in their myopic point of view, going with a gay black man regardless of his level of respect as a journalist would get the job done.
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