I agree, but there are some hardened journos that love being on the road. But as Chief White House Correspondent during a Trump presidency, I feel like Peter would rather be in the thick of it. While Tom is very much into disasters and studio chats, which is great for NN.
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What a wild comment to make. A journalist is allowed to ask questions. Management tends to get more things wrong than right. And sheâs displaying basic worker solidarity.
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No surprise really.
really, the only surprise is that heâs continuing with Top Story - wouldâve thought he would concentrate fully on NNâŠ
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Tbh I think this is way things will be going forward⊠anchors doing a lot more for probably quite a bit less than their predecessors.
I know there was a wave of pay cuts for local anchors some years back. I suspect the same is happening on a national level. I know CNN has made moves in this direction over the last year - anchors are either having their salaries frozen (if theyâre lucky!) or cut.
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Also a surprise but I think he also sees the show as his baby. NN has an entrenched format but TS he can do as he pleases.
Imagine theyâll need to come from the same studio so he can roll from one straight into the other.
It makes sense. Top story often runs the same or similar or extended versions of the taped pieces that run on Nightly anyway.
Or they pre-record the final segment. Itâs usually a feel-good or explainer package to top and tail, no need to go live. That allows Tom to head up to 3C, Hallie Jackson runs until Nightly is played out.
âI actually think building a news organization from scratch is a really fun idea in this day and age, because, first of all, thereâre a lot of good people available, and you can craft a pretty good news organization for a pretty reasonable amount of money,â said former CNN president and NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Zucker. MSNBC is âgoing to actually be building and growing and unencumbered by having to worry about what NBC News thinks about it.â
Others are more skeptical. âIf it has 100 journalists, thatâll be more than itâs ever had there,â said one longtime news executive. âItâs a whole different animal, and thatâs not what itâs built to do.â
The end product wonât actually look a whole lot different from how it looks today: MSNBC will still be doing a lot of resistance bait, in the mornings, at night, and on weekends. Still, the enterprise journalism it commissions will drive shows throughout the day, offering plenty of opportunities for an openly progressive network to blanket stories that Fox News wonât touch or CNN may be wary of owning, such as the ongoing detention of activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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