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David Zurawik: NBC Hiring Chelsea Clinton a 'Journalistically Bankrupt Decision'

By Noel Sheppard | December 18, 2011 | 17:19

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Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik on Sunday called NBC hiring Chelsea Clinton a "journalistically-bankrupt decision."

Talking to CNN's Howard Kurtz about Clinton's debut, Zurawik said if she's been preparing for this all her life "it's been a largely wasted life" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Hollywood Trade Mag Touts Maddow 'Won Primetime'?

By Jack Coleman | October 06, 2011 | 16:27

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Rachel Maddow is reluctantly ready for her close-up. Really.

That's the impression left by this gushy profile of Maddow in the most recent issue of the Hollywood Reporter. First flag that goes up: the title of the story on the magazine cover -- "The Wonk Who Won Primetime."

CNN Panelist: Obama Can Talk to Ahmadinejad But Not Chris Wallace

By Noel Sheppard | October 18, 2009 | 12:46

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With each passing day, more and more media members are taking shots at the Obama administration's strategy of attacking Fox News.

On Sunday, one of the best observations yet came from Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable magazine: "[Obama] can talk to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but he can't talk to Chris Wallace."

Such was stated on CNN's "Reliable Sources" after host Howard Kurtz played a video of Rahm Emanuel saying just a few minutes earlier that Fox isn't a news organization because it has a perspective (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript):