NBC Fires Matt Lauer

I thought she was pretty good at the tough cross-examination lady schtick on Fox.

But she's an awful fit for a morning show. When she tries fun, friendly and relatable, it instead comes off as phony, awkward and insincere.

 

She doesnt do fluff and she has a short shelf life, but in bursts she can be effective with news

 

I used to do a full overnight shift -- 11pm to 7am. That was a long time ago. I promised myself I'd work at Starbucks before I ever do that again.

Now I'm at my desk at 4:30am -- in a T-shirt and jeans, unshaven, barely coherent. That's hard enough. I work with people who have spent the past 20 years on a shift where they're in a suit or dress, TV-ready by 4am. It amazes me. It's definitely a young person's game.

It wouldn't surprise me at all to see NBC and CBS go with all-female morning anchor teams for a while. They both seem to be much deeper in talented women anchors anyway.

 

Agree with this completely. It's especially cringe-worthy when she's doing the traditional morning show stuff, like trying to pretend she's really excited about lost twins being reunited. And since I've been watching for the past year, it's an especially stark contrast from the "casual chit chat hour" they used to have at 9, when it would usually be three of Dylan Dryer, Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones and a celebrity co-host shooting the shit. That would be oddly entertaining, since the hosts were usually way more relaxed because they had nothing but softball content.

re: Geraldo Rivera, I think he's such a fucking joke that nobody cares enough to investigate him. Maybe if he keeps chirping though, it'll happen.

 

So what percentage of men think whipping it out is acceptable “flirtation” with co-workers or any other human being? Because I’d have never guessed so many famous folks would use that as an opening move.

 

Matt Lauer was a creep to his wife, repeatedly cheated. He was an obvious leach.

Want to know who the next ones are, look at powerful men, who cheated on their wives, divorced and remarried either a coworker, employee or younger woman.
Gingrich is an obvious candidate.

 

Who the fuck is their management consultant on this, Mr. Burns?

 

Could it be a safety precaution?

 

That's what I initially thought.

Crazies are out there. Takes one lock to get inside our station. A second to access the newsroom. A third for the studio.

 

people on the thread say it isn't unusual, sometimes as a security lockdown issue, but the consensus is that it was not surprising.