Who should take over Meet The Press?

[ColbertWatcher]

Poll question: Who should take over Meet The Press?

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Too soon.

[cboy4]

2. Tacky.

His body isn't even cold yet.

[newmajority]

3. Although it's in bad taste to speculate on such things before the body is even cold

I would really love to see Keith or Rachel get the gig. But my cynical side says Tweety or David Gregory is going to get it.

[chknltl]

4. I voted Rachel Maddow, Dan Rather or Thom Hartmann...

... would be other choices for me. Frankly it really is WAY to soon to be thinking of this. RIP :patriot:Tim Russert :patriot:

[depakid]

5. How about returning the show to its original format?

with a panel of questioners as opposed to a single presstitute with a direct fax line to the RNC?

[sammythecat]

12. Not a bad idea.

There's some safety in numbers.

I used to like Russert. Until the late 90's when he became a tool, and later a cheerleading enabler of a criminal war.

I've been saying all along that it might take a generation till we get a press with integrity again. We'd have to wait for the current group of self-serving cowards to leave and, hopefully, be replaced with others that weren't complicit in the crimes of this administration. I never expected, or wanted, the change to come about in this fashion, but maybe this program can become watchable again. I had lost ALL trust in Tim Russert.

[depakid]

15. Seems logical to me

After all, the show is titled "Meet the Press," not meet the corporate/for right lackey.

The same logic would apply if a a left wing hack took over the show.

A rotating panel of real journalists, sampled each from the press corps around the nation (and not just from the usual and mendacious) puditocracy) would go a long way toward reviving a show that at least in my Aussie influenced mind became an unwatchable propaganda hour.

[robinlynne]

6. Dan Rather.

[TheDebbieDee]

10. YES! Dan "Frikkin" Rather................

OMG, you are a GENIUS!

[ColbertWatcher]

7. A little bit of trivia about MTP...

"Meet the Press made its television debut on November 6, 1947 and is still on the air as of 2008. It is now the longest-running television show in worldwide broadcasting history..."

--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_The_Press">Wikip*dia

[ashling]

14. But it is not anything like the news program it was

The name "Meet the Press" applies to another program ... so to call it the longest running show is a bit of a stretch.

[ColbertWatcher]

16. It's an institution, nevertheless. n/t

[ashling]

18. I think NBC really stretches the point for marketing value

It sounds really important to say "The longest running....etc." In reality, it is the "Oldest continuously used name..."
The shows format has completely changed ... anyway, that's my .02. Doesn't take away from the value of the show or the impact that Russert had.

I had some problems with some of his questioning, but all in all he was a good interviewer/newsperson. I'll miss him.

So sad.

[ColbertWatcher]

21. It is very shocking, he was only 58.

And apparently there was no indication he had heart problems.

The show will go on, and I don't think he would be offended by that.

[GCP]

8. David Gregory

Would be my choice.

[dorkulon]

31. I'd put money on it.

It'll be him.

[keep_it_real]

9. How about KO?

[FredScuttle]

11. Dan Rather

n/t

[Kansas Wyatt]

13. Dan Rather....

Unleash him with a vengeance.

Oh sorry! I forgot that the Military Industrial Complex wouldn't want to lose their ASSets in the government and risk the truth seeing the light of day.

[brucefan]

17. Keith. n/t

[greyghost]

19. I've wanted Russert off MTP since 2000. So I've had awhile to

think about it. Rachel Maddow would be my first choice but she's to left wing for TPTB. That said, David Gregory.

[greenbriar]

20. Donohue

hands down

[mulsh]

22. JON STEWART -

oh, guess the host has to work for NBC. naw fuck it. Jon Stewart is the best person doing interviews in any media. I think they should just cancel the show and show a block of national and regional political commercials.

[ColbertWatcher]

23. I don't know...

...wasn't MTP the kind of show he makes fun of?

Why would he want to host a show like that!?

Unless you're joke of course...

[TexasObserver]

24. Other. What a ridiculous set of choices. NONE of those will get it.

They're not even on the LONG list. Nada.

Brian Williams is the likely choice.

[greyghost]

25. Nope, the net anchor isn't getting it. David Gregory has a shot.

[TexasObserver]

27. like you know

[greyghost]

28. I have a pretty good chance of being right.

[ColbertWatcher]

29. The choices I guessed at based on...

...who was working on NBC's newsmagazine show, Dateline NBC (Curry and Phillips), whichever cable personality was popular, but didn't have their own show (Maddow) and whoever wasn't the network anchor.

I also considered adding Viera from The Today Show and maybe Jane Pauley, but decided to keep the list short.

[laststeamtrain]

26. Other: Rachel Ray. n/t

[DFW]

30. Bring Meet The Press back to what it originally was: meeting the press!

Larry Spivack, who started the program, had three journalists, different
ones every time, form a panel who asked questions of the guest in rotation.
It was almost like a mini-press conference without the chaotic shouting to
be heard. Spivack got to ask questions whenever he wanted, but hey, it was
his show. None of the invited journalists got shut out. My father was one of
them on a regular basis. He was on once every two years or so.

Instead of making the moderator the star, they should make MTP what it used to
be, and make the name of the show mean something again.

[davidpdx]

32. I voted other...Chuck Todd

[KharmaTrain]

33. Revolving Panel Of Journalists

This was the show's original format...get four reporters...different ones every week...and this should include some of the better-known bloggers...to interview a newsmaker. The new "moderator" should do just that...what Lawrence Spivak did with the show for nearly 35 years. It's not as "sexy" and into the cult of personality of the beltway...yeah, maybe too much to ask for the corporate media.

[Echo In Light]

34. Other: Amy Goodman

[Kahuna]

35. This is a push poll. nt