Host Whisperer? New Republic Editor Suggests MTP Success Depends on 'EP' Feeding Earpiece Questions

NewsBusters ^ | September 5, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Psst! Psst! Listen carefully to the questions whispered into your earpieces all you Sunday news show hosts out there.

Forget about who is the new host of Meet The Press. The key player is really "EP" or the executive producer according to senior editor Jason Zengerle at The New Republic. Did you hear that Chuck Todd? You are doomed to being nothing more than a conduit repeating the questions fed into your earpiece. Here is Zengerle downgrading the goateed one as he reveals that The secret to Sunday morning show success is the executive producer:

[PJ-Comix]

The Host Whisperer in which the Sunday news show hosts are merely robotic conduits reciting the questions being fed to them by their executive producers.

[_Jim]

I don’t suppose anyone has noticed he wears an earpiece for “IFB” at news conferences ...

[Steely Tom]

I never watch those shows, partly because I assume that the guests are getting help over wireless earpieces. Why shouldn’t the hosts also get help?

Wasn’t Obama photographed wearing an earpiece during the debates in 2012?

[Darksheare]

“I sense a presence!”
*blllllart*
“Nope, that was just lunch. In other news, I say what the voices in my ear tells me to say!”

[Calvin Locke]

A non-liberal guest on one of the nightly cable shows said the producer(s) would be egging them on in contentious on-air melees.

The guest that is. Probably the same for the pro-narrative guests as well.

[GOPJ]

Todd's smart enough to ask his own questions.

If Jason Zengerle wants the job - he should sit in the damn chair - be a man about it...

Zengerle' making the wrong choice... Liberal elites might enjoy watching a ventriloquist dummy - a role played by the last Meet the Press host - but the people he wants won't be watching...