Shriver to Quit Job at NBC News | LA Times

[Ediacara]

February 4, 2004

Shriver to Quit Job at NBC News
Governor's wife decides she can't maintain her journalistic credentials and still be an active first lady of California.


By Elizabeth Jensen, Carla Hall and Jeffrey C. Rabin, Times Staff Writers

NEW YORK — Maria Shriver, trying to balance her roles as a television journalist and as active first lady of California, announced Tuesday that she was leaving her job at NBC News.

The announcement capped weeks of back-and-forth between the network and Shriver, who has been contributing anchor on the newsmagazine "Dateline," and came after three difficult months of juggling the unusual dual roles.

Shriver had grappled publicly and privately with being both a journalist and a political figure, describing herself as a "work in progress."

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[Dennis Quaranta]

1. Imagine a Kennedy Woman

Imagine a Kennedy woman endorsing traditional gender roles.

[Cleita]

2. Who cares! She's just a media whore like the rest of them.

If anything good came out of Schwinenpecker's election it's this. Now if we can get rid of the rest of them starting with Diane Sawyer....

[davidinalameda]

3. NBC's gain is California's loss

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