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Ali Vitali: Female Presidential Candidates Face Innocuous Pitfalls

Vitali discussed with Katie Phang the double standards she’s witnessed covering female presidential candidates.

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MSNBC and NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali has a new book called “ELECTABLE: Why America Hasn’t Put A Woman In the White House…Yet” and spoke with Katie Phang regarding the topic of women running for president. 

On Friday’s edition of “The Katie Phang Show,” Vitali discussed with Phang the double standards she’s witnessed covering female presidential candidates. 

The reporter shared a story covering Vice President Kamala Harris and her bid to win the Democratic nominee for president in 2020 before ultimately withdrawing before the primaries. 

“It was a reminder to me of what the rest of the campaign cycle would look like, which is the fact that when you are doing this role of campaigning for president and you are different than most of the people who have done this before …

“… I have done hundreds of [campaigns] over the course of the last two presidential cycles I’ve covered. They can be interpreted differently, and it’s a reminder that these things that seem innocuous can actually become pitfalls for female candidates, even if they are just doing the natural job of campaigning for president.”

With the 2024 Presidential Election nearing, no female presidential candidate has surfaced yet. Still, there’s no denying this will be a topic of conversation should a women politician be in the mix. 

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Chris Licht Tells CNN Staffers ‘I Should Not Be in the News Unless It’s Taking Arrows For You’

The CNN CEO reportedly told employees he would “fight like hell” to win their trust back after making disparaging statements about their work before his tenure began.

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CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht addressed an exposé from The Atlantic that dropped late last week to staffers in a Monday morning meeting.

The profile, authored by Tim Alberta, details the “meltdown” at the network. Alberta spent nearly a year behind the scenes with Licht, who trashed the previous regime’s strategy of covering the 24-hour news cycle and the stances network talents took against former President Donald Trump.

Reaction to the story has been varied, but most observers commented that the piece made Licht look inept and many questioned his future leading the network after it was published.

While speaking to staffers during the Monday morning editorial call, Licht said he spent time thinking about the profile.

“CNN is not about me,” Licht said, according to former CNN media reporter Brian Stelter. “I should not be in the news unless it’s taking arrows for you. Your work is what should be written about.”

The CNN CEO reportedly told employees he would “fight like hell” to win their trust back after making disparaging statements about their work before his tenure began.

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News Media Reacts to Chuck Todd Announcing Meet The Press Exit

Todd has been the subject of much criticism from both sides of the political aisle.

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To end Sunday’s show, NBC News Meet The Press moderator Chuck Todd announced he would exit the show in September after a nine-year run leading the program.

Todd has been the subject of much criticism from both sides of the political aisle. Many have claimed he is too soft on misinformation spread by Republicans, while conservatives have charged that he has shown a liberal bias during his tenure.

Many in the news media world shared their surprise that he was stepping aside, and lauded the decision to replace him with Kristen Welker, who has most recently served as a White House correspondent for NBC.

Welker herself called Todd a “mentor and friend”, and shared she was “humbled and grateful to take the baton and continue to build on the legacy” of the show that debuted in 1947.

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Chuck Todd Leaving Meet The Press in September

“I’ve loved so much of this job, helping to explain America to Washington and explain Washington to America.” 

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Chuck Todd announced he would depart Meet The Press Sunday, ending a nine-year run anchoring the Sunday political affairs program.

To close Sunday’s program, Todd announced that he would leave the show in September, and will be replaced by Kristen Welker.

“It’s been an amazing nearly decadelong run. I am really proud of what this team and I have built over the last decade,” Todd said. “I’ve loved so much of this job, helping to explain America to Washington and explain Washington to America.” 

Todd has been the subject of criticism from both sides of the political aisle during his tenure but added he believes the show still holds an essential place in the media landscape.

“When I took over Meet the Press, it was a Sunday show that had a lot of people questioning whether it still could have a place in the modern media space,” Todd added. “Well, I think we’ve answered that question and then some.”

Welker will step into the role held by Todd since 2014. She becomes just the second woman to anchor the program after Martha Rountree was the show’s inaugural host more than 75 years ago.

Meet the Press has sustained its historic role as the indispensable news program on Sunday mornings,” NBC News’ President of Editorial Rebecca Blumenstein and NBC News’ Senior Vice President of Politics Carrie Budoff Brown wrote in a memo to NBC News staffers.

“Through his penetrating interviews with many of the most important newsmakers, the show has played an essential role in politics and policy, routinely made front-page news, and framed the thinking in Washington and beyond.”

The announcement that Todd will step aside from hosting the program comes after scuttlebutt had mostly ceased about his future as the show’s moderator. Late last summer, The Daily Beast’s Confider reported Welker was in line to replace Todd should the ratings continue to decline.

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