Brokaw Will Host "Meet the Press" until November--But Who Gets the Job After That?

Tom Brokaw will take over the moderatoramp8217s chair on Meet the Press until the November presidentialamp160election NBC made the announcement with little fanfare It seems a smart if safe choice Brokaw 68 is a known entity who since his retirement from Nightly News in December 2004 has gone barely a week or two without popping up somewhere on NBC or MSNBC Itamp8217s like he never really leftPutting an old face onto an old show isn39t taking much of a risk And it doesn39t reinvent the productamp160Looking into the future who would be both a qualified and a buzzmaking choice to get the gig permanently Names bandied about in the media blogs and columns include NBC White House correspondent and frequent Today Show sub David Gregory former Today host and current CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric and CNN anchorreporter Anderson Cooper Yawn yawn yawnIt would be a major move if not necessarily a promotion to be named permanent host of Meet the Press The job needs someone with lots of onair experience a natural rapport with viewers a familiarity with the quirks of live television and just enough celebrity oomph to draw viewers on his or her name alone The new host also must have a strong enough personality to deal with difficult guests who try to lie spin or otherwise detour from answering the tough questions And the host should be neutral enough politically to keep accusations of bias from creeping into the interviewsWouldnamp8217t hurt to hire someone young attractive on camera and fashion savvy since Meet the Pressamp8217 current audience demographic is somewhere just this side of Methuselah Younger viewers might relate to a host whoamp8217s a little less brainy than a Russert or a Brokaw someone who doesnamp8217t get bogged down in complicated palaver about the Federal Reserve the mortgage crisis or how OPEC sets the price of oil per barrel Someone who39d never use the word quotpalaverquotAll the other network news programs have gone soft Maybe Meet the Pressamp8212retitled MTPamp8212could benefit from less focus on important issues and the addition of a couple of juicy gossip segments delivered in that fakeenthusiastic style that the onair talent on E has perfectedamp160That means the amp160host would have to be like totally comfortable with the likes of Angelina Jolie to talk not about thirdworld adoption but about maintaining hotness after birthing twins and Matthew McConaughey fighting for the right to remain shirtless That leaves just one worthy candidate the NBC honchos should considerRyan Seacrest

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