Who should host a new show show on MSNBC?

[Eric J in MN]

Poll question: Who should host a new show show on MSNBC?

Deborah Norville is leaving MSNBC. Tucker Carlson is a likely replacement.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050105/ap_en_tv/tv_carlson_crossfire
"We think Tucker is a great journalist and we're exploring our options for a new 9 p.m. show," said MSNBC's Jeremy Gaines.

Who should MSNBC hire to host the 9-10 PM Eastern hour?

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Ed Schultz should be considered

He has mentioned it on his show. He would do a good job.

Tucker does not know his head from his behind.

[MSgt213]

2. If they take off that boring ass Imus they can put a monkey on

[pstans]

3. Other

I don't like Tucker at all, Clinton being on TV would just give the Right something to complain about, so I voted for other.

Here are people that came to mind:
Al Sharpton
Mo Rocca
Al Franken
Jon Stewart
Howard Dean
Joe Trippi

[Eric J in MN]

6. I'm hoping Howard Dean will be the next DNC Chair, but

if not,then I'd like him to have a show every night.

[saltpoint]

4. Perhaps Bill Moyers, if he wants the job --

-- or Lowell Weicker or Julian Bond.

[Pachamama]

5. Bill Clinton would be great...I bet the ratings would go through the roof

& he's entertaining....

Ed Schultz would be great, but Big Dawg's got the celebrity power...bet Bill could make calls and get ANYONE on he wants...

:bounce:

[Plaid Adder]

7. I'll do it. How much do they pay?

Do we get free potato chips?

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[VioletLake]

18. I was gonna say the same thing. We can do it together!

Plaid & Violet B-)

The world is our goiter... I mean oyster. :crazy:

[babylonsister]

8. Political Analyst Lawrence O'Donnell

He's one of the few who calls 'em like he sees 'em, and represented MSNBC prior to the election. Ironically, I haven't seen him since.

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15696

[Eric J in MN]

9. Lawrence O'Donnell had a show on MSNBC on Saturdays

and Ann Coulter was a regular guest for the full-hour.

[babylonsister]

16. Doesn't make him bad, or does it?

When was this? Very interesting because it seems to me they are so far apart politically. But I still think O'Donnell is smart and liberal.

[Eric J in MN]

22. I have nothing against Laurence O'Donell as a person, but

I thought his show, ‘Saturday Final with Lawrence O’Donnell’ was mediocre.

It was on in 2003.

For all of the one-hour show, he posed questions to 4 people at once, all of them connecting by satellite.

They included right-wingers like Ann Coulter, Ted Nugent, and Penn Jillette (sometimes two of those people in one show.)

[Booster]

10. My vote is for Ron Reagan - he's intelligent, charming, funny

and can be serious when he needs to. He'd be great.

[Eric J in MN]

12. Ron Reagan will co-host a show on MSNBC show with a rightwing woman.

In the daytime.

[Patsy Stone]

11. Linda Ellerbee. n/t :)

[guajira]

13. Bill Press - n/t

[Rooktoven]

14. Eric Alterman!!!!

and he has expressed interest (in replacing scarborough, anyway)

[Shopaholic]

15. It's a done deal-it's Tucker Carlson

MSGOP in action. How long before they can Keith like they did Phil Donahue?

Details: www.tvnewser.com

[imenja]

27. if Keith's ratings stay up, he's good

It's all about the green for them. Last I heard, Olbermann's ratings were way up.

[moggie12]

17. A boring, fact-obsessed real reporter, like in the olden days

Some nice person posted an e-mail link to MSNBC earlier today on DU so I took advantage and asked MSNBC to do a "real news" show, not one more talking-head-fest. Instead of having partisan people screaming at each other, I suggested they spend the first fifteen minutes of the show covering an issue in depth with (GASP!) data, historical background, etc. (Can you imagine? Focusing on one issue for 15 minutes?? And considering facts??)

The next fifteen minutes, I said, could be spent on following up on issues from preceding weeks/months. (e.g., looking at updated exit poll data that pretty much demolished the original Zogby poll that had everyone running around thinking "moral values" had determined the election, examining Kerry's late October claim that Bush was going to demolish SS in light of Bush's post-election announced plan to do exactly that, etc.)

Don't give us some smart-mouthed partisan for the host, I said, just give me some old fuddy-duddy reporter who knows how to do some research, conduct a tough interview, and maintain some semblance of objectivity.

My e-mail is probably posted on the lunch-room board at MSNBC right now, where everybody is no doubt laughing their heads off at it.

[Eric J in MN]

23. Like a one-hour version of Nightline? (nt)

nt

[moggie12]

32. Kind of like "Nighline meets Countdown"

Point well taken: But Nightline is too stuffy & pompous. If, however, MSNBC took advantage of visuals, injected sense of humor & sarcasm like on "Countdown", maybe a serious news analsysis show could work (also, have it much more interactive -- do viewer e-mails at end). My concern is that the 24/7 news cycle and all the partisan talking-heads screaming at each other means we decide issues by "sound-bite". Most Americans don't read newspapers or magazines -- they get their news while channel-surfing. Sound-bite news lets Bush & Co. frame issues (they are great at manipulation via sound bite).

[leesa]

19. Why on earth would you bother to watch MSRNC???

[Eric J in MN]

24. I cancelled my cable several months ago.

If there are ever a lot of liberal shows, maybe I'll restore cable service.

[NAO]

20. Katrina vanden Heuvel

She is fantastic and would be the perfect antidote to people like Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough.

MSNBC should seek some balance in their programs.

[Sparkly]

21. She'd be great

I'd love to hear her talk without people interrupting her all the time!!

[imenja]

25. Clinton isn't going to do it.

He wants to be a Jimmy Carter type ex-president. Not Geraldo.

[imenja]

26. Dan Rather

That would really get the Right going.

[Califooyah Operative]

28. Ron Reagan. nt

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[Maddy McCall]

30. Provide a link proving that.

[paulie5]

31. My vote goes out to.

I would like to see Bozo the Clown get his own show again. Good old Bozo could probably do a much better job than any of those other clowns that think they're journalists.

Lets hear it for BOZO !

[txaslftist]

33. GO BOZO

[elsur]

34. I can't see ...

... where it really matters. Nobody is going to watch and they'll be switching lineups again 8 months from now.