5 Ways To Improve Meet The Press

[Valin]

Townhall:

Conn Carroll

Nov 28, 2014

 

"If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press."

 

For a generation of political junkies no truer words were ever spoken. Growing up in Oakland, California, I would even choose Tim Russert over the morning NFL games (both started at 10 a.m. PST).

 

But now, Meet just isn't appointment viewing anymore. What can be done to turn the show around?

 

1. Less is more

 

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2. Drop the packages

 

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3. Bring back the journalist panels

 

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4. Let partisans be partisans

 

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5. Better guests

 

The panel discussions on the week's events do still have a place. But no more "Republican strategists" or Democratic political consultants. No more former-governors or former-House Majority Leaders who just got bounced from office because they are deaf to the populist movements in their party. And this might be ageist but the guests need to be younger too. Meet the Press is in desperate need of some fresh faces.

 

Surprisingly, NBC News President Deborah Turness seems to already be on board with many of these ideas. She recently told The New York Times, “The show needs more edge. It needs to be consequential. I think the show had become a talking shop that raked over the cold embers of what had gone on the previous week. The one-on-one conversation belongs to a decade ago.”

 

I couldn't agree more.

[Cyber_Liberty]

[Valin]

@Cyber_Liberty

 

Doesn't have to be. But I know what you mean. The problem is IMO they are really only talking points shows. It doesn't have to be that way.