More Jossip NBC Gossip…
After something of a hiatus from the subject, Jossip returns with more dirt on NBC…
Like David Gregory before her, Andrea Mitchell is being accused by insiders of big footing a colleague to serve her own agenda.
Mitchell is said to have lobbied NBC Nightly News executive producer Alexandra Wallace to let her cover Barack Obama’s overseas trip next week to Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan, despite the fact that Lee Cowan — yes, that Lee Cowan — has been covering Obama’s campaign since he began running for president. It’s a classic Mitchell “big foot,” we’re told by one NBC source who’s provided accurate information in the past, and has angered folks at NBC’s political desk, news desk, and elsewhere.
I’m going to defend Mitchell to a certain extent on this, if it is indeed true. Cowan has been the campaign reporter but this is a foreign affairs matter so it’s not clear cut to me that this automatically falls to Cowan’s domain.
July 16, 2008 at 7:31 am
I have always detested Andrea Mitchell.
Voice, face, delivery – pathetic.
She married the old Greenspan for obvious reasons.
Looks like it worked.
Where is Tim Russert when we need him to keep things in line over there?
I never watch her now, and will never watch her Obama coverage.
What’s that thing about putting lipstick on a pig???