What’s Hot/What’s Not: 5/11/08
What’s Hot:
Chuck Todd – Todd gets the full Howard Kurtz treatment. Someone at NBC wants to elevate Todd’s profile.
Alexis Glick – With Peter Barnes departing Money for Breakfrast Friday and a nice big Jon Friedman profile this week, Glick continues to solidify her presence on FBN’s Morning programming.
What’s Not:
Firing Jennifer Locke – It’s not so much that Locke got fired for voicing an opinion she shouldn’t have, but that Locke got fired while others have had arguably more serious gaffes…and didn’t get fired. This gives credence to the theory of a double standard; that you’ll get fired if you screw up and you’re expendable but not get fired if you’re not.
Peter Barnes – Washington Correspondent after only 7 months? Add in the fact that Money for Breakfast, which Barnes co-anchored, lost an hour earlier this year, which was filled with an hour of just Alexis Glick, and you’ll pardon me for thinking this smells more like exile rather than a promotion.
May 12, 2008 at 4:13 am
The double standard of firing the expendable person while just lightly slapping the wrist of the not expendable one for the similar offense is not unique to Fox News. Nor even to the industry. Not even to the working world. In the private high school that I attended, a rich kid and a scholarship kid went on a vandalism spree together, and the scholarship kid was bounced from the school while the rich kid was not.
May 12, 2008 at 5:58 am
Of course it isn’t just unique to FNC. It still stinks though…
May 12, 2008 at 7:26 am
I think FNC was in a damned if they do/damned if they don’t situation. A staffer was caught on camera explicitly talking about how she voted, and it was being played elsewhere. If they didn’t get rid of her, it would just give the critics ammo about FNC being a mouthpiece for the GOP.
May 12, 2008 at 8:14 am
Regarding Peter Barnes. I’m not sure if he was pushed out or wanted out because in his farewell, they were talking about his wife who is back in DC and it was hard for him to go back and forth back and forth to do the show.
If they didn’t throw in the wife is in DC excuse then I would say he was pushed out.
May 12, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Barns was just there to get the morning show started.