Here’s the five-day forecast: Weather Channel about to be bought by NBC
Richard told you earlier this year that The Weather Channel was for sale. Now it looks like recent rumors that NBC was going to be the one to buy the TV network are true. Reuters says that the deal should be closed in the next few days, and the reported price is between $3 billion and $4 billion.
If you haven’t noticed, weather is the most important part of a newscast now. I was just talking to my roommate about this yesterday. Every single local newscast opens with news about the weather. Not just tornadoes and hurricanes, but bad rain storms that might pop up later in the day (wow, rainstorms in the summer - shocking!). Weather is the lead story (death, war, and the election can wait), the follow-up story, and the actual weather segment halfway through the show is given another good 7 or 8 minutes.
This could be good for NBC though. Since they love crossovers and filling the screen with ads for other shows and stunt casting, maybe Howie Mandel can do the weather once in a while. Or maybe Donald Trump can do commentary on California wildfires (”You’re fired!”). Or how about Masi Oka in front of a green screen giving the weather? Better yet, create a new Heroes hero that controls the weather and promote it on the network.
MSNBC Anchor Says No More To Paris Hilton
MSNBC Anchor Says No More To Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton mania was so upsetting to one American news anchor that she ripped up and attempted to burn a report about the heiress… live on the air.
The fed-up newswoman happened to be Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. In what has turned into an instant YouTube classic, Mika repeatedly refused to run the story by taking matters into her own hands.
According to Times Online, the whole ordeal started when “Brzezinski, the 40-year-old daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security adviser to President Carter,” snubbed her superiors (or acted out on their wishes?) by refusing to read the story about Paris’ release from jail before items about the war in Iraq and the White House.
“I hate this story and I don’t think it should be our lead,” she professed.
Obviously used to getting her own way, Mika continued to wad up the script into a ball. But she didn’t stop there.
Moments later, the MSNBC anchor was politely handed a new script and, this time, she tried to burn it with a cigarette lighter. On the third attempt, Brzezinski made use of the newsroom’s shredder, further attempting to make her point.
Explaining her stance, Mika said, “I just don’t believe in covering that story, at least not as the lead story on the newscast, when we have a day like today.”
Paying no mind to the likes of Ms Brzezinski, Paris continued enjoying herself on a Hawaiian getaway. While she was spotted with friends who were sipping on wine, the “Simple Life” star intelligently decided that being photographed with alcohol wouldn’t be the best move at the present time.
How long will it take before the “reformed” socialite gets her party groove back? Soon would be our guess. But we’ll be happy if we’re proven wrong, too.
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