I agree about the need to do live interviews on breaking stories, and it will be interesting to see if NBC really calls on Kelly to sit at the big desk during major breaking events.
I am prepared to give her a chance (if and when she does anything actually worth sampling). But I confess to seeing NBC's decision to hire her as an alternative way forward to that illustrated by the Washington Post and CBS - i.e. an approximation of real journalism in the Age of Trump. On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kardashians: they exist as a brand before they are humans. As a result >> anything in the media about them has to build the brand and they have >> publicists to enforce that. A story about bullying, while worthwhile, would >> have to be done without their active participation. >> > > Point 1: From what I can tell, Kelly's body of work is political > interviews, and Republican-leaning at that. > > Point 2: In live interviews I was thinking about talking to leaders during > a major news event like Katrina in New Orleans. When an official becomes > available for an on camera interview the journalist has to be able to come > up with good questions on the spot. If there is prep time then your point > is correct. > > When I wrote about TV news hosts being in a bubble about which kinds of > stories they choose to cover, I would cite John Oliver as someone who finds > interesting stories outside of that bubble. Even if the Megyn Kelly prime > time show is female-skewing it would be awesome if she would do a story > like Oliver's Miss America story without the jokes. I don't expect it. > > At Fox News I think the only well regarded journalists are Shepard Smith > and Chris Wallace. So Kelly would be an infotainer. > -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
