The Bum's Rush
Jun. 29th, 2012 05:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinema_babeI don't catch much news these days but I was checking it out tonight and apparently Ann Curry is no longer a co-host on the Today Show. If seems that ABC's Good Morning America bested them in the ratings as The Today Show continued to slip. Someone had to fall on their sword and I guess it had to be the new co-host.
Meredith Viera certainly bailed out at the right time.
But here's the thing. When Meredith Viera left, they spent a whole two hours sending her off: clips of stories she did and shenanigans on the set, celebrities wishing her a bon voyage and they capped it off with a 5+ minute musical number. This after 5 years on the show.
Ann Curry has been on the show for 17 years and what did she get? A 5 minute segment at the end of the show. They didn't have little film clips of the stories she's covered. That's really a shame because as reporters go, she's pretty bad ass. She's been to been to more than one battle zone and on the scene of pretty much every major disaster for the past decade or more.
But she got nothing. You know this much have happened pretty damn fast if they didn't have time to pull something together *and* they pulled her on a Thursday rather than wait until Friday. She cried through her whole good by and looked so miserable.
Gee NBC, way to look like cold douche bags.
Meredith Viera certainly bailed out at the right time.
But here's the thing. When Meredith Viera left, they spent a whole two hours sending her off: clips of stories she did and shenanigans on the set, celebrities wishing her a bon voyage and they capped it off with a 5+ minute musical number. This after 5 years on the show.
Ann Curry has been on the show for 17 years and what did she get? A 5 minute segment at the end of the show. They didn't have little film clips of the stories she's covered. That's really a shame because as reporters go, she's pretty bad ass. She's been to been to more than one battle zone and on the scene of pretty much every major disaster for the past decade or more.
But she got nothing. You know this much have happened pretty damn fast if they didn't have time to pull something together *and* they pulled her on a Thursday rather than wait until Friday. She cried through her whole good by and looked so miserable.
Gee NBC, way to look like cold douche bags.
