Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, is coming to the Barnes & Noble in Lancaster (PA) on Saturday, May 28, to promote her newest book Knowing Your Value. But we should we care, really? What has she done of any significance?
I’ve watched Morning Joe several times, and Ms. Brzezinski does little to nothing on this show, at least during the times I’ve seen her. She reads headlines, and then the rest of the time she nods, smiles, and attempts to get a word in while Joe Scarborough and the other people are talking. I think she may do some interviews. At best, she appears to be overpaid eye candy.
But thanks to a famous father, good education, interesting job opportunities in ‘so-called’ broadcast journalism, and a supposed advocate for ‘hard’ news, she seems to have propelled herself into the public’s eye and a lucrative position. A media darling? Well, she is rather attractive.
What she needs is a platform, outside her books, where she is not playing second (or third) string to the media boy’s club.
Otherwise, I suppose Brzezinski knows her value after all: she smiling her way to the bank with a hefty paycheck. Ka-ching!
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NBC’s Today Show defers more to entertainment and tabloid reporting more than ever. On Saturday October 17, within the first twenty minutes, the Today Show featured no hard news but rather stories which might more likely be seen on Entertainment Tonight, DMZ, or E! Television.
The first featured the misadventures of Henne family, wayward ex-reality televisions stars and the probability of creating a hoax in the disappearance of their child. The second story was about chunky Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith and her controversial demise. In between, the show cut to the ‘news’ desk for headlines which included a bear that broke into a car and got stuck there. This is hardly ‘hard news.’ There was nothing about the Afghanistan, the economy, or the overnight news of Pakistan’s offensive against the Taliban insurgents. There was no prolonged coverage or investigative reporting. [read more]
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Today Show Becoming Tabloid Television
October 17, 2009
in American Culture,Commentary,Entertainment,Television
NBC’s Today Show defers more to entertainment and tabloid reporting more than ever. On Saturday October 17, within the first twenty minutes, the Today Show featured no hard news but rather stories which might more likely be seen on Entertainment Tonight, DMZ, or E! Television.
The first featured the misadventures of Henne family, wayward ex-reality televisions stars and the probability of creating a hoax in the disappearance of their child. The second story was about chunky Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith and her controversial demise. In between, the show cut to the ‘news’ desk for headlines which included a bear that broke into a car and got stuck there. This is hardly ‘hard news.’ There was nothing about the Afghanistan, the economy, or the overnight news of Pakistan’s offensive against the Taliban insurgents. There was no prolonged coverage or investigative reporting. [read more]
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