Chuck Todd Signs Off As Moderator Of 'Meet The Press,' Successor Kristen Welker
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Source: Deadline
September 10, 2023 8:39am
UPDATE: Chuck Todd signed on of his final broadcast as moderator of NBC News’s Meet the Press by handing his successor, Kristen Welker, a reliable alarm clock and telling viewers that he’ll be focusing on network projects tied to bridging the political divide.
Welker appeared in the final minutes of Sunday’s show, with a montage of her asking hard-hitting questions at a presidential debate in 2020 and of other notable figures.
“You have left very big shoes to fill and I just want to make you proud,” Welker told Todd.
“I take this responsibility so seriously,” Welker said. “I am ready because you have helped me get ready, Chuck. You’re someone who invests in the people who you care about and you have invested in me, and I am just so eternally grateful for that.” She credited Todd for bringing her to D.C. and teaching her “just about everything I know about politics.”
Read more: https://deadline.com/2023/09/chuck-todd-meet-the-press-sign-off-1235542336/
He's gone (most of the sources have nothing but video clips of it vs stories at post time). Should have happened YEARS ago. Good riddance!
Full new headline: Chuck Todd Signs Off As Moderator Of ‘Meet The Press,’ Successor Kristen Welker Says She’ll Approach New Role “As A Reporter”
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September 10, 2023 7:55am
Chuck Todd opened his final broadcast as moderator of NBC News’s Meet the Press by telling viewers that it was an understatement to call the gig “an honor and privilege of my lifetime.”
“This is simply the pinnacle of political journalism, something my younger self never would have imagined,” said Todd, who announced in June that he was stepping down from the role.
“No matter how much of a grind that the current political climate is, wearing my down on any given day, I still always have had a ‘pinch me, I can’t believe it feeling every time I hear my name introduced as the moderator of the longest running show in the history of television.’ In fact, I used to joke my goal is not to be the last moderator of the longest running show in American history, and I have achieved that goal and then some.”
Kristen Welker will succeed Todd as moderator next week. When she does, all of the major networks’ Sunday morning shows will have a woman as moderator or co-moderator for the first time.
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time in a particularly bizarre way (to my ear) almost staccato at times, trailing off the end of the point that he seemingly didn't want to emphasize but in what I guess was supposed to sound erudite. It didn't to me.
One thing that never changed was his "beltway-driven conventional wisdom" -- nearly always based on Republican memes.
NO loss. I just wish that I had more confidence that Kristen Welker will not be just as bad or worse. She has rolled over countless times for Trump in her reporting and was Todd's mentee after all. 
Instincts and personality quirks, for lack of a better word. Chuck Todd has shown us time and again that he never had the training or the dogged determination of a real journalist.
Carl Bernstein's autobiography that he wrote a few years ago - there's an example of a political journalist learning the ropes and becoming a great reporter along the way. He never earned a college degree either, but no one would ever question his credentials.
and even then, when trying to listen to a weekly gardening show that aired 8 - 10 on Sunday mornings on the radio (WOR, that I could pick up here in Philly), NBC shoved it aside to put that one's arrogant smarmy chatter on my radio as a simulcast -
Schmuck was already going to be a non-starter in any event once Gregory was finally given the boot.
of self-congratu-bation. Ugh.
