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.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6425239NJCher (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.
