A week ago, Matt Lauer caught hell for asking GM exec Mary Barra if she could be a CEO and a good mom. Yesterday, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said that her daughters would probably label her a bad mother; Nooyi feels she, personally cannot be a CEO and a good mom. So today, Matt Lauer is all: TOLD YA.
Later this year, when Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie goes on maternity leave, there will be an empty chair at the table on the morning show.
Since leaving the Today show, 57-year-old Ann Curry has stayed on at NBC, doing a few special reports here and there. But now there is a "window" in her contract — meaning she could leave NBC and go somewhere else. What will become of Ann Curry?
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Yesterday, we saw Bri Wi do "Nuthin' But a G Thang." Today it's "Regulate." So awesome. But you guys, I miss Nate Dogg. He made songs better. RIP.
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The folks at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon created a pretty great clip of Brian Williams "covering" "Nuthin' But a G Thang." Thank you. Just the other day we were saying that the evening news needs more gin and juice.
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As you may recall, when writing about the Today kerfuffle surrounding Ann Curry's departure, Brian Stelter noted that though the show targets women, it is mainly managed by men. But yesterday, NBC News got a new president. Her name is Deborah Turness.
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While Mitt Romney may have a well-established problem wooing women voters—his wife, excluded—it appears when you break it down that it's actually the single ladies he's striking out with. And he's not doing very well with single men either. The one group he is doing okay with? The marrieds.
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The Today show actually sent a reporter — foreign correspondant Michelle Kosinski — to Florence to cover the arrival of Snooki, JWoww, The Situation and the rest. Though one Italian woman expressed disdain for the guidos ("They're full of tattoo. They're drunk. I think they are stupid"), the cast is being followed…
