David Gregory Next to Go at NBC?

Count me as a regular FTN viewer for the reasons you stated. He was my evening choice when he replaced Rather on an interim basis. For me, I take in the Osgood program and roll right into FTN.

BNWriter, the CBS station here is often such a technical fiasco and also loaded up with infomercials. To its credit, though, it hung in for the second half recently when Woodstein guested.

I was preparing to throw a fit. ;D

 

And Schieffer's ratings while he was the interim host of the CBS Evening News were better than Katie's.

 

I usually watch "This Week" and eschew the other shows, a habit that began when Snuffleapgus was host, but watched FTN last weekend with O'Donnell guesting, Boehner in the hot seat. Damn, NO'D is a tough gal. Might have to tune into FTN more.

 

NBC has been grooming Todd for the job since Russert passed. That's been a little more than four years. Is Todd ready for the big chair? I honestly don't know ... I can't recall any hardball (small H) interviews of his. But his camera presence is developing and he has the electoral math grasp that Russert so famously had.

 

Todd is their best choice if what they want to do, and it is what they want, is to continue to display what corporate America thinks the rest of America should be thinking about. Not knocking Chuck, he comes by his conventionality honestly, and he's about 1000 times smarter than Gregory, so it'd be a better show. But the Sunday interview shows are basically bribes, all of them. They give pols airtime because campaign contributions aren't allowed. What the three networks have given McCain (not someone I completely dislike) since the 2008 election is a scandal. They insist he's important, even though everybody else in America knows he isn't anymore.

 

I think with politicians, it really does make a difference if the host can intimidate the guest on some level.
Pols knew Russert knew what he knew, it wasn't done through prep or a producer. It probably also helps when a journo has "seniority" on a pol and can back it up with stories like drinking with Reagan or LBJ.
I just don't see someone like Stephanopoulus or Gregory intimidating anyone.

 

LOL. You haven't been properly humiliated by your employer until they've hired a a psychological consultant to give their assessment of you:

 

You wouldn't catch me wasting my time on any of those inside-baseball circle-jerk slap-fests.

 

Sunday morning? You're at Church, right?

 

Jesus, do not scare people by resurrecting d_b threads like that.

 

The EP of MTP came directly from TV's top viewer analyst firm...he specializes in market research, so it's actually par for the course that Gregory was put through a personality profile. I guaran-damn-tee you that all major anchors at the Big Three have.