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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you could own your own tv news network, what talent would you hire?
This is your DREAM team. So, dont limit yourself on who might accept. You are the decider.
Heres mine:
First, I would talk to Keith Olbermann and tell him that he could have his own show if he picked his own producers, editors, etc. And any in fighting therefore would be his fault. Short leash.
Soledad OBrien
Dan Rather
Jon Stewart
Jon Fugelsang
Stephanie Miller
Randi Rhoades
Lawrence ODonnell
Rachel Maddow
Don Lemon
Allison Camerota
Ali Velshi
Ari Melber
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Daily contributers:
Malcom Nance
Micheal Avenatti
Stormy Daniels (no penis discriptions)
Steve Schmidt
John Mecham
Funtatlaguy
(10,886 posts)Freestate_MD
(69 posts)What a show!
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Lauren Duca
Jeff Greenfield
Maggie Haberman
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)A FEW POLS NOW OUT OF OFFICE...
Al Franken (he had a long-running show on Air America)
Howard Dean (creator of the 50 state strategy)
and ultimate dream: Barack Obama
SOME EFFECTIVELY POLITICAL CELEBS...
Alyssa Friggin Milano (a real mover & shaker on Twitter)
Rob Reiner (he doesn't just talk the talk, he gets involved, e.g., his major Trump Russia website)
AND OTHERS...
Melissa Harris Perry (Loved her show on MSNBC, even if she butted heads with corporate suits and got fired.)
Randy Rainbow to perform his latest political parody songs.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,980 posts)I'm not partial to poaching talent from other corporations. I'd send recruiters out among the universities and the 'bush leagues' in search of highly motivated purveyors of the truth - tenacious bulldogs who just won't stop.
Funtatlaguy
(10,886 posts)kacekwl
(7,021 posts)you can get her to stop saying "Right" after every statement.
Funtatlaguy
(10,886 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)OK, I'm ducking now.
Obviously not for his hard hitting attacks on the crazy right. But I do appreciate his attempts to be aggressively impartial, to look for just facts. It's a relief once a week.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Fox's Crotch Couch for the old, white male, conservative demographic
Lots of sponsors like Viagra, My Pillow, and ExLax.