You should scroll down and watch the video.
“It is also… unnerving, to see that on a network where we’ve got two, count 'em, two, non-white hosts in prime time… both of our non-white hosts in prime time are losing their shows. As is Katie Phang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible.”
She drops the veil in the video, but frankly I’ve found her insufferably patronizing over the years and don’t watch her.
It’s not that I disagree in any way, but there’s a reason I’m in print. There’s no way for me to deliver anything less aggrandizing, and I’m the choir.
I have the utmost respect for what she does, I just don’t need the exasperation to add to where I’m already at. As journalism goes, this is a duck. I question whether anyone actually takes something away from her direct style.
I was an editorial writer by trade. I needed to figure out nuance through the written word, because going sharp in verbal tone wasn’t an option. I loved feeling like I made a difference … I’m just not sure I actually did, outside of a few parking signs.
Yeah, I get that. I know some people find her delivery to be incredibly off-putting. Personally it doesn’t bother me and I love her reporting, but I get it.
I think this is an issue of choice of employment. If you’ve ever worked in a newsroom, what she says is so blindingly obvious; it serves only to instill PTSD. Of course we all saw this coming.
When you’re watching WWE wrestling and the bad guy in that storyline is the guy who owns the WWE in real life, and that guy is a bad guy in real life, that doesn’t make the story you are watching real. That’s still a “Work of fiction.” Searching the Work for meaning or hints about the real world situation can be fun, but the Work is a performance art piece for television made by the guy who is bad in real life. Personally I think MSNBC is a boring wrestling show, I don’t like their “all promos” style and they use too much pre-recorded footage.
