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The bottom line…

Wow, that was quick.

This article by John Koblin for The New York Times tells us…

Greta Van Susteren leaving MSNBC after less than six months

I point this out simply to show the sometimes ruthless business of television and, in this case, television news.

I very much recall liking Greta Van Susteren when she was one of the regular talking heads during the O.J. Simpson trial waaaaay back when.

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After that was done, I know she went to Fox News and, because I avoid that network like the plague, never did get to see much of her there.

When she popped up on MSNBCa few months back I caught her now and again and, frankly, was surprised by how little I cared for her show.  Again, I distinctly recalled enjoying her and her comments -usually very sharp and perceptive- during that O.J. Simpson trial but here, in this format… I dunno.   It felt weak, as if she were trying a little too hard to straddle the line and inject her “common sense” thoughts into today’s politics.

Apparently Mrs. Van Susteren’s ratings were very bad and the decision was made to drop her.

Quickly.

She had a show on Wednesday and by Thursday (ie yesterday the 29th of June as I type this) they had already dropped her and placed a new temporary host for her hour.  No mention was made on the change by this new host and, I suspect as I didn’t see it, Mrs. Van Susteren didn’t have any sort of “goodbye” on her Wednesday show.

Again, I point this out as an example of the sometimes very ruthless nature of television.  While I didn’t particularly like her show and, it would appear, not enough people did, it strikes me as rather nasty the way she was so quickly dropped.

Which makes me wonder if there may have been other things going on in the background which hastened this decision.

Ah well, I won’t necessarily miss her but, still, can’t help but feel a little sorry for Mrs. Van Susteren.