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Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi wrote a big Style section front-pager for Monday on how NBC's Meet the Press, "Sunday's most venerable news show has stumbled in the ratings."
The shocking paragraph that will get discussed around Washington today is that NBC commissioned a psychological consultant to figure how who MTP host David Gregory is, and what makes him tick. Or maybe, why people just don't like him very much:
Last year, the network undertook an unusual assessment of the 43-year-old journalist, commissioning a psychological consultant to interview his friends and even his wife. The idea, according to a network spokeswoman, Meghan Pianta, was "to get perspective and insight from people who know him best." But the research project struck some at NBC as odd, given that Gregory has been employed there for nearly 20 years.
Farhi did not explore that one big difference between Gregory and his predecessor Tim Russert is that Russert could ask some tough questions of Democrats, while Gregory seems to save the hardballs for Republicans. His idea of a recent question on Benghazi for Susan Rice was "Any regrets?" Even the program's interviews with other NBC staff (Andrea Mitchell discussing the personal "magic" with Jimmy Carter, Harry Smith with Bill Maher) are fawning rather than challenging.
"Meet the Press" used to be a show where politicians would prove whether they were leadership material. Now it only shows David Gregory isn't leadership material. Did that require a psychological consultant?
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