“Meet The Press” host David Gregory dismissed a report that said NBC hired a psychological consultant to interview his friends and family in hopes of turning around the news program’s flagging ratings.
“There was never any psychological consultant hired, that’s utter fiction. That’s gossip reporting gone wild,” Gregory said Friday in an appearance on Washington, DC radio station WTOP.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that the psychological consultant was commissioned to “to get perspective and insight from people who know him best.” The network spokeswoman quoted by the Post later disputed that information and said NBC had brought on a “brand consultant.”
Gregory told WTOP that NBC got branding and marketing experts to “talk to me and others around me to really think about my strengths and ‘Meet The Press’ strengths and try to amplify those.”
“Again the idea of psychological counseling or testing is complete fiction and has been kind of a runaway train,” he added.
h/t Mediaite
Since when is brownnosing a “strength”? Every age and every empire has its courtiers. Ours, tragically, are the pundits, who suck up to power while jostling for “access” to the palace.
David Gregory is a Thackeray caricature, a Lord Steyne, the Keeper of the Privy Wipes. Let’s face it, he could wear a powdered wig and a fake mole every Sunday, and nobody would even notice the difference.
dick gregory strengths are fictional.
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Ah ha ha ha - ROTFLMAO. David, honey, you don’t have any strengths to speak of. They brought the branding people in to see if there was anything about you on MTP that was salvageable. Long story short - no, nothing, nothing at all. Good riddance.
How does one amplify something that does not exist?