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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on August 30, 2009, 02:02:37 PM
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 01:51 PM
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"Liberal" media strikes again: Jenna Bush is now employed by NBC
NEW YORK — NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent — former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager.
Hager, a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television's top-rated morning news show, said Jim Bell, its executive producer.
The daughter of former President George W. Bush said she has always wanted to be a teacher and a writer, and has already authored two books. But she was intrigued by the idea of getting into television when Bell contacted her.
"It wasn't something I'd always dreamed to do," she said. "But I think one of the most important things in life is to be open-minded and to be open-minded for change."
She'll essentially work two part-time jobs as a correspondent and in her school, where she will be a reading coordinator this year.
Bell said he got the idea after seeing Hager in two "Today" appearances. She was on the program two years ago to promote her book about an HIV-infected single mother, "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope," and it went so well that a short interview was stretched to nearly a half hour. She and her mother, Laura Bush, also co-hosted an hour of "Today" around the time their picture book came out.
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NJCher (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 01:53 PM
3. ugh
Another reason to not watch TV.
Positions like this should go to journalists on their merit, not because of who they are
related to. At best, her work experience is skimpy.
Only seats in the U.S. Senate should be awarded on the basis of family connections.
Cleita (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 01:54 PM
4. Now we know for sure that they don't hire their
correspondents for their journalistic resume. To be fair I was never impressed by Maria Shriver
either, another "journalist" who was hired because of her famous family.
But I'll bet DUmmy Cleita loves gayboy Ronald Reagan, Jr.
Kerrytravelers (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 02:01 PM
12. I agree. And as someone who went to J-School, this is just insulting.
There are plenty of reporters who could actually... report. What the hell is this???? I moved out
of journalism. However, there are people I graduated with who are still in the field. And they
have actual reporting experience.
There are three J-School that battle it out each year in the ranking between being rated
the #1, #2 or #3 J-School in the country, and I went to one of those. There are people I
graduated with who were damn good back then, and we graduated J-School in the late '90s.
So, think of it like this... people who have gone to the top schools in the country for journalism
are being knocked to the side for "reporters" or "personalities" like Jenna Bush, and, I agree,
even Maria Shriver. I was never a Maria Shriver fan, and as a Californian, I certainly am no fan now.
DUmmy Kerrytravelers, after four years at an expensive journalism school, has found his place in
journalism as a mod at the DUmp. His parents must be proud, as they struggle to pay off his
college loans, that their sacrifice has resulted in an unpaid temporary postion at a lunatic leftist
website.
RockaFowler (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 02:05 PM
15. Count me in this, too Kerry
I went to Broadcasting School and I am having to work my way up at a local station. She's 27 and
has never gone to school for this. She was aksed by someone at Today. Let me hurl now. I work
for a NBC affiliate and this just infuriates me!!
It's probably unfair, but I can't think of anything but seeing, when I was a kid, those Columbia
Broadcasting School ads on the back covers of comic books and inside matchbook covers. Maybe
those are the venues that top shelf universities use to advertise for students.
Kerrytravelers (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 02:05 PM
14. She'll just shill for some big textbook publisher under the guise of "strengthening education."
I'm in education now. All these new "innovated" programs are just fattening the pockets of the
textbook publishers. Teachers get so much junk each year from these companies pushing this
nonsense or that. Most of it is stuff that is here today, gone tomorrow.
I won't be watching her.
I believe that DUmmy Kerrytravelers, who graduated from a prestigious journalism school, and
who is so savvy that he knows to call it "J-school", really meant to say "innovative".
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 01:58 PM
9. And what experience does she have that would qualify her for a national network?
If she wants to go into journalism, fine, but why does she get to race to the top?
How many other young journalists who have been slaving away for years on "Good Morning
Omaha" were passed over for this job?
Having said that, I wish her well, and maybe she will see that her father's No Child Left
Behind policy was complete nonsense.
She's a bright young woman who realizes it was a mistake for her father to agree to Dead Ted's
NCLB. On the other hand, the NEA hates NCLB, so it isn't all bad.
And DUmmy bluestateguy really does not wish her well.
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 01:58 PM
9. And what experience does she have that would qualify her for a national network?
If she wants to go into journalism, fine, but why does she get to race to the top?
How many other young journalists who have been slaving away for years on "Good Morning
Omaha" were passed over for this job?
Having said that, I wish her well, and maybe she will see that her father's No Child Left
Behind policy was complete nonsense.
Hey moron the NCLB act was co sponsored by the liar err Lion of the senate.
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And what experience does she have that would qualify her for a national network?
Well, having lived in the WH, listening to politics 24/7, I'd say she is vastly more qualified than any of you DIpSHits!
Suck on that asshat!
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Positions like this should go to journalists on their merit, not because of who they are
You mean like these people?
Chris Matthews
George Stephanopolis
Susan Estrich
Pierre Salinger
Bill Moyers
Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr
Dee Dee Myers
Dick Morris
Peggy Noonan
Gene Sperling
David Gergen
Tim Russert
and the list goes on and on...
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RockaFowler (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 02:05 PM
15. Count me in this, too Kerry
I went to Broadcasting School and I am having to work my way up at a local station. She's 27 and
has never gone to school for this. She was aksed by someone at Today.
Maybe there's some reason you're not getting ahead OTHER than lack of family connections.
:evillaugh:
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Attention DUmmies, it says right on a variety of articles that she was basically considered after they remembered her work on interviews she did with them as the president's daughter and doing a spot with her mother. They thought she was very poised and comfortable and understood what it was like to be under some scrutiny(unlike you moonbats who find victimhood under every overturned stone). Basically, how she behaved when she was on set as an interviewee led them to consider her as a contributor. Consider it like an internship she didn't know she was taking. The only thing I'll give them is she would have never been in that interview to begin with were it not for her position, but too bad...that's how shit goes. I'm sure their beloved Obama daughters will also be in the right place, at the right time and if they have any skill and poise at all, will probably be just as fortunate. Good for her! It's one thing to have connections, it's quite another to be put together and have skills and grace that have people remembering you when it comes time to hire. Sounds like the Bush's did a damn fine job raising her.
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I completed a project that I have been working on for about twenty hours in the toilet this am that has more qualifications to be a journalist than 99% of the media.
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Well, having lived in the WH, listening to politics 24/7, I'd say she is vastly more qualified than any of you DIpSHits!
Suck on that asshat!
But Hilary can be a Senator right???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Why are they assuming that Jenna is a conservative? Many children turn to the opposite political party of their parents. At least we are led to believe that by all the DUmp monkees that hate their parents for their conservative beliefs. Besides, Jenna is cute, she'd do better on Fox News.
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Why are they assuming that Jenna is a conservative? Many children turn to the opposite political party of their parents. At least we are led to believe that by all the DUmp monkees that hate their parents for their conservative beliefs. Besides, Jenna is cute, she'd do better on Fox News.
I agree, Jenna is certainly attractive, but Barbara (GWB's other daughter, not his mom you sickos), she's gotta be conservative, cuz she's hawt!
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I completed a project that I have been working on for about twenty hours in the toilet this am that has more qualifications to be a journalist than 99% of the media.
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