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Subscribe to RSS*** Monday’s “The Daily Rundown” line-up: Latest on the president’s trip and historic stops in Myanmar… NBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin and Stephanie Gosk live in Gaza and Tel Aviv… The Washington Post’s Paul Kane and Felicia Sonmez on the fiscal cliff forecast… NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo on today’s Hostess hearing… White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor on Benghazi, Israel and more… National Journal’s Beth Reinhard, msnbc’s Robert Traynham and Democratic strategist Tracy Sefl on the Republican reset.
*** Monday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up: MSNBC’s Richard Lui, filling in for Chris Jansing, interviews Rep. Loretta Sanchez, Dana Milbank and Jackie Kucinich on fiscal cliff negotiations; Ayman Mohyeldin from Gaza; Col Jack Jacobs on Generals who live like Billionaires; Chuck Todd traveling with the president; John Feehery and Fmr. Rep. Joe Sestak on the GOP at a crossroads; and The Atlantic’s editor James Bennet on their Brave Thinkers of 2012.
*** Monday's "MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts” line-up: Ayman Mohyeldin live in Gaza City, political panel: Susan Page, Karen Finney and Hogan Gidley. Also: former CIA operative and author of CIA thriller Michael R. Davidson about Benghazi. Jimmy Williams on Why it Matters: Fiscal Cliff and Israel. P.J Crowley, former State Dept. Spokesman on Israel. Tampa Tribune Military Affairs reporter, Howard Altman, and Maya MacGuineas on the fiscal cliff.
*** Monday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviews former Ambassador Dennis Ross, the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Sen. Johnny Isakson, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, No Labels Mark McKinnon and Democratic strategist Brendan Daly.
*** Monday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: Tamron Hall interviews Rep. Jon Yarmuth (D-KY), The Daily Beast’s Mike Giglio, Time Magazine’s Jim Frederick, Democratic strategist Jimmy Williams and MSNBC contributor Michael Smerconish
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Watching morning TV news shows can be a surreal experience. One second you see the body of a small child extracted from the wreakage of a home, the next minute the hosts are yucking it up over some pop culture thing. It's strange.
This Sunday, I tuned into Today, which started with a voiceover of Erica Hill describing the attacks on Gaza. I thought, oh, I can see why they choose to replace Jenna Wolfe with Hill, if they are going with a more hard news format on Sunday morning. (Not that Wolfe couldn't do it, she could totally read hard news headlines, but Erica Hill has that serious-news vibe.) But the quick voice over reporting of the attacks on Gaza quickly turned into the usual morning show silliness about funny videos from the Internet and all that. I find myself wondering, why am I watching this stuff?
If anyone is listening, I really enjoyed Today when it was Wolfe and Holt, just doing their thing. I'm not against silliness in a morning show, per se, since it seemed like the hosts balanced serious and silly things pretty well. But, this new format is a trainwreck, in my humble opinion. It's nobody's fault, except the producers', and mine for watching TV when I should have been cleaning the kitchen. Just thought I'd put in my two cents. I'm not liking the morning show changes on the weekend on NBC.