{"id":1771,"date":"2012-06-27T20:26:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T00:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2012-06-28T06:45:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T10:45:32","slug":"ann-couldnt-curry-enough-viewer-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/06\/ann-couldnt-curry-enough-viewer-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Ann Couldn’t Curry Favor Among Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumors that Ann Curry<\/strong> is on the way out as co-anchor of the Today<\/em> show bring this response from me:<\/p>\n

“What took you so long?”<\/p>\n

Perhaps my response should be “Why was she put in that position to begin with?”<\/p>\n

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Ann Curry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Curry was a decent, at best, news reader every half-hour for the show before her promotion, but she never had the gravitas or presence to be co-host.<\/p>\n

That’s not as big a knock as it sounds like, as Matt Lauer<\/strong>, for all his experience has never been larger than life … except for perhaps his ego.<\/p>\n

When NBC buys out Curry’s contract, as it appears to set to do, and replace her with a younger woman from inside or outside its fold, it comes out a loser.<\/p>\n

Not only the network shell out $10 million to buy her silence, it will come off as nasty for its treatment of a loyal employee, overmatched for the position, or not.<\/p>\n

Ann Curry … Not the Best Choice … (get it, NBC?), but one it should have decided on initially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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