Heck, when Meghan gets like that, I get speechless too, and I'm watching at home. As a person with a broadcast background including in news/current events and cross-talk experience (that is, two or more people having a discussion. Not "cross" or angry talk), you first have to only have one person talking or no one can hear anything, including the panel, listeners or viewers. Second, Meghan trying to assert some power or credibility in this way just makes her sound unprofessional. If she wants to be a boss, let her go produce her own show. She's a powerful voice, and I'm all for women having a platform to speak out about pretty much any topic we see fit since very few outlets truly let us, but there are many heads higher up than she. She gets paid for being articulate about her astute analysis of political angles not everyone considers; she does not get paid to be an unprofessional snot who makes herself unpleasant to watch. There's "good television" with some conflict, but in this case it's just rude, uncomfortable, disrespectful from the "respect your elders" standpoint when dealing with someone like Joy, and disrespectful among peers in her profession. She can disagree all she wants but why she lets herself come off like a flat-out jerk when she's otherwise a pretty self-contained, rational person, is beyond me.
"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had the practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Alice in Wonderland
Updated On: 4/8/19 at 11:33 PM