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Jewish World Review
Nov 16, 2011
/ 19 Mar-Cheshvan 5772
Clinton's ‘vast experiences’: Did NBC pick the wrong Chelsea?
By
Dale McFeatters
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In announcing his network's newest "special correspondent," NBC News President Steve Capus gushed, "Given her vast experiences, it's as though Chelsea Clinton has been preparing for this all her life."
Capus has apparently been absent from the front lines of journalism for a couple of decades because if the former first daughter is known for anything, it is her driven determination to avoid the press, an endeavor in which she was aided by phalanxes of press aides and Secret Service agents.
The Washington Post's TV columnist labeled her the "Most Artful Media Dodger." Her principal credential for joining the ranks of journalists is her skill at blowing them off.
But former CNN President Jonathan Klein insists, "She's going to have ways of looking at our world that's different from a run-of-the-mill correspondent."
Klein also apparently has been absent from the front lines of journalism, since it's a backhanded insult at all the aspiring young TV reporters who didn't have the foresight to include in their journalism resume a mother who is secretary of state and a father who is a former two-term president.
Following a path trod by Jenna Bush Hager and Meghan McCain, Clinton was able to stroll right into two slots on two prime-time shows, "Rock Center With Brian Williams" and "NBC Nightly News," without the usual tedious preparation that goes into the making of a network correspondent: Begging for an internship of any kind, paid or unpaid; a starting job with a small-market TV station; covering fires, accidents and sewer-main breaks in the predawn hours and on weekends, usually when it's raining; and finally earning the stripe that every reporter dreads, obtaining from a grieving family a photo of a child who was killed.
Maybe we're being horribly unfair to Clinton, but somehow we don't think these are among her "vast experiences." She's probably never been thrown out of a place by the cops, a venue where she and her mother were visiting during the 2008 campaign, for example.
Given the state of the dwindling journalism market these days, no reporter or editor is going to begrudge someone a job, no matter how they came by it. The prim, reserved Clinton will start out doing feel-good segments, "stories about everyday people doing extraordinary things."
There is still some hope, however, for some malicious fun. The Wednesday-night lead-in to "Rock Center" will be a new show by the bawdy comedian Chelsea Handler, author of the alcohol-fused memoir, "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea," and the self-explanatory "My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands" and "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang," essays that even a friendly review described as "often blatantly vulgar." The cover shows a dog looking up her dress.
Maybe the two Chelseas will become hopelessly confused in the public mind. It could do wonders for Brian Williams' ratings and broaden even Clinton's broad experiences.
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Previously:
• 11/15/11 Occupy protesters, you've made your point. Now, scat
• 11/10/11 Our vets are a national problem?
• 11/09/11 Requiem for a once-great sport
• 11/08/11 A toilet as smart as its occupant
• 11/07/11 Prerevolutionary gems in need of TLC
• 11/04/11 Feds must stop scam of stealing from dead children
• 11/03/11 Bank listens ‘very closely’ to customer lynch mob
• 11/01/11 TV that's leading the people away from ‘core socialist values’
• 10/31/11 NATO should not be a victim of its success
• 10/28/11 Iran mulls getting rid of president and presidency
• 10/27/11 Bienvenidos a Dayton and bring your businesses with you
• 10/26/11 Archivists long for Obama's teleprompter
• 10/25/11 United Nations to run the Internet?
• 10/24/11 Attention, world: You've got the cash. We've got the houses
• 10/19/11 Oil pipeline must be in America's future
• 10/18/11 U.S. plans ‘limited’ mission in an Africa with no limits
• 10/17/11 Social Security's grave mistakes
• 10/12/11 NASA's help-wanted sign for astronauts
• 10/10/11 Saving Thomas Jefferson''s chimneys
• 10/06/11 Uncle Sam's answer to deadbeats --- robo-calls
• 10/04/11 Christie should ignore jibes on his weight
• 10/03/11 Iran says its warships will head for Jersey shore
• 09/29/11 Europeans bristle at Obama's lectures
• 09/28/11 Jessica Rabbit for the defense
• 09/27/11 Russia learns outcome of next March's presidential election
• 09/26/11 Another try at leaving no child behind
• 09/23/11 This generation needs a job more than a name
• 09/22/11 In the lane next to you: A driverless car
• 09/20/11 Cloudy, cool, chance of falling satellite
• 09/14/11 Humanitarian extortion
• 09/13/11 Paging Dr. Watson; he's there in 3 seconds
• 09/09/11 Forecasting 100 percent chance of heavy metal
• 09/08/11 A jobs program at Obama's doorstep
• 09/07/11 Iran's government afraid of the water
• 09/06/11 Congress returns, tanned, rested and testy
• 09/05/11 Space nations must clean up after themselves
• 09/02/11 Osama bin Laden died a failure and he knew it
• 09/01/11 Time to retire political pie in the face
• 08/31/11 Labor Day celebrates what, exactly?
• 08/30/11 These arrestees really are framed
• 08/25/11 When in an earthquake, block traffic
• 08/23/11 A case for discretion in deportation arrests
• 08/22/11 Tough times or not, parents shell out for school
• 08/18/11 Being unpleasant for fun, profit, promotion
• 08/17/11 Time to prepare for the end game in Libya
• 08/16/11: ‘Super Committee’ starts facing reality
• 08/15/11: World's fastest plane disappears even faster
• 08/12/11: British cops track rioters through security cameras
• 08/11/11: Relax. There is no Death Star
• 08/10/11: House pages run final errands
• 08/09/11: U.S. treading water on job creation
• 08/08/11: Uncle Sam, the world's permanent guest
• 08/05/11: Most 9/11 victims not on federal death records
• 08/04/11: Russian PM calls U.S. a ‘parasite.’ He should be so lucky
• 08/03/11: Congress goes from one bind to another
• 08/02/11: D.B. Cooper may no longer be a mystery
• 08/01/11: Libya's latest weapon against NATO --- lawsuits
• 07/29/11: He'll always be known as Hot Wheels Handler
• 07/25/11: Recruiting children to save a dying town
• 07/22/11: Bachmann's admirable medical candor
• 07/12/11: Social Security's grave mistakes
• 07/08/11: Debt crisis need not be constitutional crisis
• 07/07/11: Startups entice new talent with kickball, treehouses
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