Greta achieves ratings success tracking Natalee

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20050808/LIFE/508080343/1005 ^ | 8/8/05 | David Bauder

[kcvl]

Hey, Josh, maybe that's why Greta is kicking your butt! MSNBC doesn't even score on many of their shows like Chris Matthews. Keep laughing. You obviously don't know your potential audience.

Josh Mankiewicz is a Dateline NBC correspondent based in Los Angeles. He began reporting for Dateline NBC in February 1995.

Mankiewicz has also done profiles of Janet Jackson, Kim Cattrall, Michael Flatley and Haley Joel Osment.

Mankiewicz graduated with honors from Haverford College with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology.

[injin]

there is a message in all of this :
World , don't mess with our young ones !
If you do , we will be on your case FOREVER !

good.....

[beyond the sea]

Critics find it an obsession bordering on the bizarre, twisting traditional notions of news judgment and becoming Exhibit A in the media's fascination with missing people - as long as they happen to be young, white, female and pretty.

Pretty much agree.

Her increased ratings says something not so fine about America.

[Clemenza]

Rich white & pretty: Guaranteed to bring in all the idiot female viewers who made Laci Peterson a household name.

[kingattax]

"I'm rich, white, and pretty. Why isn't that working for me ?"

[MinuteGal]

LOL!

Leni

[NetValue]

We appreciate what Greta is doing.

[Lori675]

Thats funny

[BulletBobCo]

"I'm rich, white, and pretty. Why isn't that working for me ?"

Unfortunately, for us, Crissy.....you aren't missing.....yet.

[martin_fierro]

Unfortunately, for us, Crissy.....you aren't missing.....yet.

Short of vanishing in a puff of smoke, having a show on MSNBC is as close to "missing" as it gets.

[I still care]

I am tired of Natalee. And the "crime of the month" newscasting gets tired, also. Not my cup of tea.

But I must admit Greta is shining. When I listen to her question people, I am impressed by her logical applications and the way she digs out information. Plus she seems truly compassionate with the desire to help Natalee's family find some kind of justice.

[BallyBill]

"I'm rich, white, and pretty. Why isn't that working for me ?"

Matthews also looks and acts like a women.

[Huck]

And it's just a Cuban crime of passion
Messy and old fashioned
Yeah, that's what the papers did say
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
Anjejo and knives a slashin'
Yeah but that's what the people like to read about
Up in America, up in America


Jimmy Buffett song, 1973.

[hershey]

It's the mystery -- that's the hook. Mysteries continue to sell in good times and bad, no matter what. Something about human curiosity.

[mewzilla]

Mystery and morality play. People also want to see the guilty caught and punished. Can't slam them for that.

[beyond the sea]

LOL! Excellently applied!

[beyond the sea]

That's true, I hear you. But I'd rather Americans (and Greta) have curiosity about The 16th Amendment and the fraudulent Federal Income Tax, CFR, nukes in America, Flight 800, OKC, Waco, etc., etc., etc. Those are ALL GREAT MYSTERIES!

But, I guess this little soap opera in Aruba is working for Greta now that Michael Jackasson is over.

I think it's abysmal that all that FoxNews network time is spent on that one unhappy Aruban matter.

Take care.

bts

[Huck]

I always think of that song when these Laci Peterson type stories take over the news. I don't follow the crime stories. I don't really relate to it, but hey, different strokes I guess. I don't relate to watching cars make 800 left turns for 4 hours either, but millions of people love that. Hell, the more of em like that stuff, the less crowded it'll be wherever I'm going.

[beyond the sea]

He's white, somewhat rich ............. but, pretty?

Michelle Malkin should place a pie in Matthews' pudgy, angry, thin-lipped face.