i could have not said that better myself. i m alicia men menez, alex has the night off. here s a thing that has happened every day like clock work, as long as we can remember. every day the white house sends out from the white house the daily guidance. at the top, there s a few paragraphs describing what the president s day will entail. and below that, there s a schedule of the major events planned. with the daily intelligence briefing, any major meetings, the timing of any travel that the president is doing. the white house puts out the daily guidance that so the press can plan and that you can make out every day. it s something done every day every white house under every president. just a couple of weeks at the end of donald trump s presidency, something weird happened. the white house issued daily guidance that said president trump will work from early in the morning to late in the evening. he will make many calls and have many meetings and then mention about a campaign r
tv news is a team effort. and among the many people who dedicate much of their lives to the pursuit of truth and knowledge and getting the news on air, there are a few who are not just the best at what they do they also view their work, their life with grace and humanity. dax was one of those people who died suddenly last week just before christmas. he was only 37 years old. dax began his career as an nbc news associate before rising through the ranks working in l.a. and new york. dax worked with alex wagner for a long time as well, helping to launch now with alex wagner one of the two shows he started here at nbc. as one of the experts told me his rapid rise was met with heart and hustle. i met dax here, and he introduced himself as though his
MSNBC has answered its Maddow succession question, with the former daytime cable host taking on the coveted and highly competitive 9 p.m. slot four nights a week. “She’s certainly progressive,” says one source, “but she has a different voice, and maybe that brings in a different audience.”
should not have been written. i think trump is outrageous but that was an attempt to smear him. msnbc has just axed the rest of its afternoon lineup of liberal talkers, ed schultz, alex wagner and the cycle. and you may or may not know that this is the actually very last cycle. this is the last now with alex wagner. the problem with such shows is that things got kind of dull because almost everyone agreed with each other. the ratings so disastrous that the channel is trying to pivot back towards news giving a show to chuck todd of meet the press and this month welcoming a chastened brian williams to the cable channel. the problem is msnbc has almost no reporters except what it borrows from nbc and will find it hard, for example to compete with cnn s global resources but good luck because good for country to have three healthy news channels. that s it for this edition of media buzz. i m howard kurtz. thanks for watching. hope you like our facebook page. we post a lot o