It’s about time
It’s being called a Sunday Shake-up. Chuck Todd is leaving Meet the Press. It’s an interesting development with the timing falling as the presidential primary season is taking off. He will be NBC News’s chief political analyst. He will continue producing his Chuck Toddcast and Meet the Press Reports podcasts.
Todd made the announcement during Sunday’s show that it wasn’t his last show but it would be his last summer hosting Meet the Press. Staff was told in a memo from NBC News President of Editorial Rebecca Blumenstein and NBC News Senior Vice President of Politics Carrie Budoff Brown.
Today we close our show with an announcement from @chucktodd:
«While today is not my final show, this will be my final summer here at Meet the Press. … I am really proud of what this team and I have built over the last decade.» pic.twitter.com/sgeUcNR3C5
Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) June 4, 2023
Todd said that he would rather leave “a little bit too soon than stay a tad too long” but I’d say that ship sailed. I’m not impartial on the topic, though, because I was a regular viewer of the show back in the day when Tim Russert was host. Russert died in June 2008. Since then the show has taken a nose dive as far as I’m concerned. Russert was fair and treated all politicians the same on his show. He asked them all tough questions and was famous for putting up quotes or video to show how someone had flipped on an issue for political expediency.
