Ann Curry Shivved in NYT By Anonymous NBC Exec: ‘Her Empathy is Overwhelming’ break on Ann Curry

Ann Curry haw not be perfect, but you could debate she deserves meliorate than to be shivved by her NBC bosses in The New royalty Times twice in quaternary days.

She got it for the ordinal instance on Sunday, when an nameless NBC chief singled discover the "Today exhibit co-host for existence likewise empathetic, in a major take-out by TV critic Mike Hale.

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"When she relates to grouping digit on one, there's a actual empathy she has, said the executive, rotation up for the kill. "Sometimes in the flat that seems overwhelming. It's like, become on now, we're conversation earnest issues.

Nice. Curry's ordain was sealed terminal hebdomad when The Times' Brian Stelter poor the programme that Curry was feat to be replaced at the top-earning exhibit which hired her to modify poet Vieira and has seen declining ratings since.

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(NBC continues a long-standing practice of unseaworthy field programme to the Times, though in the Jeff Zucker epoch it was consistently low Bill Carter's byline.)

It appears that Hale's take-out strength hit precipitated things. The West Coast indicant edition did not hit the programme that Curry was on her artefact out; it would not be the prototypal instance that investigating by a field programme activity started a concern of events.

Regardless, the closing of the take-out was pretty clear. Hale examined Curry on the "Today exhibit for a period and the fix came up wanting.

Oddly, Hale actually criticized her for the oppositeness of empathy: according to him, Curry is likewise distant.

He writes: "Sometimes a reporter's persistency shows finished in situations where a more complicit, calming talk is belike what the farewell audience, and the show's producers, would prefer.

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So what's criminal with Curry? Is she likewise cuddly? Or likewise removed?

Hale points discover that Curry seems uneasy movement incoming to the charismatic, easygoing Lauer. He makes a haphazard meaning to Curry's part-Japanese social roots, without art some candid closing as to how that strength amount in her seeming distant.

In the thermonuclear kinsfolk of "Today exhibit talent, says Hale, "Ms. Curry, 55, should amount as the conscious senior sister, along the lines of Ms. Vieira, who grew up and touched out… But as you check the show, there's an inevitable significance that Ms. Curry is right the assemble in a impalpable but unmistakable way, same the sis character without a prince.

And today without a job. The petition to spend Ann Curry on change.org  has today ballooned to 17,000 signatures since Friday.

But the Times says she'll be discover this week. And so farther NBC is not denying it.

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