Tina Brown says give Meet the Press to Rachel Maddow.

[Are_grits_groceries]

How is it Obama can fill a Cabinet faster than NBC can replace Tim Russert?'
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One of the problems for NBC that was showcased during Russert’s media version of a state funeral in June is the way the chair of Meet the Press has become above all a Washington social and status position and only secondarily a journalistic assignment. Russert himself was not a journalist. He came from politics. His interviews either promoted his subjects or subjected them to opposition research. He was the Washington élite’s staff man, stoking their prejudices, whims, and attitudes. His regular-guy persona flattered the élite by making them imagine they were regular guys too.
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Or how about… a woman? Since NBC has not heeded my last suggestion to appoint either the unsung cable Rottweiler Greta Van Susteren or a reinvented, post-Palin Katie Couric, I say give Meet the Press to Rachel Maddow. She’s smart. She’s quick. She’s witty. She does her homework. And she listens to what the person she’s talking to is saying. She doesn't just go to the next question on her list.

If Obama is post-racial, Maddow is post-gender—divested of hair-frosted femininity in the anchor genre and more appealing because of it. Like him, she’s a calm, unflappable new era phenomenon. Sure, she’s a lefty, and in the past week she's been swinging away at Obama's cabinet choices, but I suspect she's ambitious enough to dial it back if she had to. (She also has that weird TV gene that’s so hungry for air time she’d probably insist on keeping her five-day job at MSNBC. Russert himself was on every show except Project Runway.)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-01/washingtons-other-transition/

I don't agree with everything, but I like the Maddow idea.
I wouldn't ask her to scale back. The only problem is that
she would have to bring less snark.

[Bicoastal]

1. Not gonna happen...

...they're just gonna throw some more doughy old guys at us again.

[rurallib]

2. It is NBS nooz's signature program. Expect someone on the right

most likely @ 50ish male. Probably not Tweety.

[ErinBerin84]

3. made some good points

some things I take issue with -
"unsung cable Rottweiler Greta Van Susteren"

Is she kidding?

Also, she implies that having more "Christopher Hitchens" on the panel is needed because he calls people out on their bullshit. He may be crass and blunt, but he is a walking bullshit factory himself, so I reject that suggestion.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Great idea. I have doubts they would do it.

[qb]

5. If not her I hope they find someone who's not just another shill for the right.

I almost threw up yesterday when Air America broadcast Tom Brokaw's puff piece on Laura Bush.