Okay, I don’t know whether everyone has already seen this, because it’s a few days old and that’s ancient in Internet video years, but I just saw this and I think it’s great. Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC news anchor, refuses to read a Paris Hilton story as the program’s lead, then rips up and attemps to burn the story!
“It’s not like I’ll never cover a Paris Hilton story again and it’s not like I’m never going to listen to my producer again,” she said. “But that day, that story as the lead was just preposterous. It made me feel stupid.”
I wish more journalists had that reaction. But is it just me, or were her co-anchors being insanely patronizing with their “ooh, look who’s trying to be a big girl and play serious journalist…isn’t she a silly, neurotic woman?” Oh god, they turned her into a character from Because I Said So…