Tune in here for review of "Huckabee" on Fox News
Z on TV will be live and well this weekend, so please tune back in.
Saturday night at 8, Fox News airs Huckabee, its new show featuring former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and I'll be here with a review. The show debuted September, but this is the first on-the-road with a live audience version of it -- and it's the first critic's pass at Huckabee for me.
I'll also be up and running Sunday morning. Like everyone else who isn't lying about what they know or don't know, I'll be eager to see whether or not Tom Brokaw hands off the baton to David Gregory as host of Meet the Press. I'm also eager to see how the transition is handled.
Since the death of Tim Russert in June, Brokaw has handled everything that he's been involved in at NBC with such class, while so many have behaved so badly.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews tried to leverage a threatened run for the Senate into the Meet the Press job, and now he's in a position where NBC has essentially told him to go. And what about the issue of who leaked Gregory's appointment to whom. And how does the network's political director, Chuck Todd, feel about not getting the on-air post?
Talk about soap operas -- NBC's got one now.
Comments
David,
Huckabbe has been on for at least a month now.
Mark
Hi Mark, Yes, Huckabee debuted in September. This is his first show with an one-the-road, live format, according to Fox. And it is the first pass at it as a critic for me. As you know from his campaign, Huckabee is very good in a live audience setting, so I am looking forward to it. Hope you will tune back in for my take. Thanks. Z
Posted by: Mark | December 5, 2008 7:14 PM
Z, will you be reporting on the coverage of the OJ Simpson Sentencing hearing? You try to be objective and I was curious if you would mention the fact that people were heckling the Goldman's after the hearing. As much as we could hear them, the cameras never focused on them. Why is that? They would have if it was a McCain rally. Just curious.
Hi Shannondoodle, I was all primed to do so Friday afternoon, but then got called off to do other stuff. I was impressed with the relatively calm and even-handed approach at CNN and Fox. Both covered it, but not exclusively, while MSNBC (which has totally lost its news compass) did. As to the Goldmans and camera coverage, I think I get your point about the way the network cameras covered hecklers at McCain/Palin rallies, and the way in which that was used to criticize the candidates -- whether or not they had any chance at controlling it. But let me try and find the video you are describing so I can comment with some confidence on that specific point. Z
Posted by: shannondoodle | December 6, 2008 4:35 AM
I'm wondering, when and why Chris Matthews would try something like that now. I didn't catch that in the news.
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