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NBC orders psychological testing for David Gregory
NY Post ^ | 4/21/14 | Emily Smith

Posted on 04/21/2014 10:02:27 AM PDT by jimbo123

NBC’s “Meet the Press” has fallen to such ratings lows that network brass ordered psychological research of the host David Gregory and his family, in a bid to make him more likable.

Friends of Gregory and even his wife were interviewed by a psychologist commissioned by NBC to find out how the host of the flagship Sunday morning show might relate to audiences better.

The Washington Post reported, “Last year, the network undertook an unusual assessment of the 43-year-old journalist, commissioning a psychological consultant to interview his friends and even his wife.

“The idea, according to a network spokeswoman, Meghan Pianta, was ‘to get perspective and insight from people who know him best.’ But the research project struck some at NBC as odd, given that Gregory has been employed there for nearly 20 years.”

The days of “Meet the Press” ruling Sunday mornings seem a long time ago — now it is in third place.

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KEYWORDS: bwahahaha; consultant; davidgregory; gregory; meetthepress; nbcantiamerican; phychologist; psychology
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To: Impy; justiceseeker93; Sun
RE :”He’s wooden and boring and shrill. It doesn’t take a g*d damn degree in psychology to see why viewers don’t like him”

Yes but I don't see how the other two shows do any better.

The old CBS fossil Bob Scheiffer belongs in a museum.
And ABC This Week with Paul Krugman, Ann Navaro, the Carville ghouls(they both look like the walking dead), .....is too painful to watch
George Will was wise to bail that network.

Last night I found of youtube video of a whole ABC This Week Show November 1989 with David Brinkley that focused of the fall of the Berlin Wall which happened that past week.

101 posted on 04/22/2014 4:43:55 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: jimbo123; Revolting cat!; GeronL; Slings and Arrows

Fine for NBC, but who on MS-NBC doesn’t need psychological analysis?


102 posted on 04/22/2014 1:10:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: NautiNurse; ntnychik; potlatch
David Gregory Mouthed Off to a Waitress, Got Scolded by Tim Russert
103 posted on 04/22/2014 1:31:50 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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To: PhilDragoo

Nice find! Thanks for filling in the details.


104 posted on 04/22/2014 3:27:54 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: jimbo123

People don’t like leftist propagandists.


105 posted on 04/22/2014 3:30:07 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: jimbo123
He has this smug, self satisfied liberal look about him that most people in fly over country detest. He was a poor choice by NBC to replace Tim Russert ... Tim came across as a likable strait shooter type of guy, even if you didn't always agree with his position on issues.
106 posted on 04/22/2014 3:45:45 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: jimbo123

Fun headline. Gregory reminds me of Joseph Davis, who’s mother nicknamed him “Gray” and doomed him to a life of nondescript boringness.


107 posted on 04/22/2014 3:50:40 PM PDT by x
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To: jimbo123
Does anyone see this as a loosely veiled and sneaky "Employee Improvement Plan" You know 3 hurdles you have to make and they make them so arbitrary that you can't make them and they stack the deck against you until they got their 3 to give you a pink slip?

Worse is even the hint of bring in the shrinks whether they did or not and why it was done in the former Soviet Union...

108 posted on 04/22/2014 3:54:08 PM PDT by taildragger (The E-GOP won't know what hit them, The Party of Reagan is almost here, hang tight folks....)
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To: justiceseeker93

I turn the radio to another station the minute this garbage program comes on, with its softball questions for Odumbo and his minions.


109 posted on 04/22/2014 8:42:46 PM PDT by EinNYC
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