Maria Shriver: Anna Nicole Smith Is Reason I Won't Return To NBC News

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Maria Shriver Won't Return to NBC News

October 24, 2007 08:21 PM EST | AP

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Maria Shriver said she won't resume her TV news career and the late Anna Nicole Smith is the reason why.

Shriver, speaking Tuesday at a conference on women, said the media circus surrounding Smith's accidental drug overdose death last February led to her decision.

"It was then that I knew that the TV news business had changed and so had I," Shriver said. "I called NBC News and told them I'm not coming back."

Shriver took an extended leave from the network when husband Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for California governor in 2003. After his victory, she made two appearances as an anchor for "Dateline NBC."

In 2004, she announced she was leaving NBC News because she was unable to juggle her work as a journalist with her duties as California's first lady.

Shriver's remarks Tuesday came during the annual California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women. Schwarzenegger, preoccupied by the wildfires sweeping Southern California, made only a brief appearance via satellite at the conference.

He had been scheduled to take part in a discussion with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

:thumbsup:

...looks like death warmed over.

everytime I see her on TV I want to feed her something.

I wish I could believe that her reason for not returning to TV
was because of her ethics, but I can't help wondering if NBC
would really put her on TV looking like she's one meal away
from starvation.

I read an interview with her where she said a few things that indicated something out of whack.

Obviously, seeing her wizened mother has not dissuaded her from this ethic.

Seriously though, I have wondered myself if she is ill.

Did any of them avoid the story completetly?

Oh, well, what the hell? Anna Nicole Smith: yawn.

that turned her off? Unreal.

GE-NBC
Jack Welsh-GWB

A collusion that reeks to high heaven and was/is much worse than the overcoverage of Anna Nicole!

She couldn't address the media's complicity because someone might address the complicity of Miss Holier-Than-Thou's husband who of course supports the party that supports it all.

Stop picking on Anna Nicole!

You made her a celebrity!

I love Anna Nicole.

I love Bobbie Trendie (what's he up to these days).

I absolutely rely on the News to gie me the latest information on Anna Nicole, Bobbie Trendie, Howard K. Stern, etc.

I could not possibly get through one day -- Not One Day!! -- without news on the latest celebrities.

I hope Britney will still get to see her kids.

And what's happening with Paris?? Please, news stations, more news about Paris!

Doe I really need this: :sarcasm: ?