Posted on 10/24/2007 8:02:02 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
Maria Shriver won't return to NBC News
Maria Shriver said she won't resume her TV news career and the late Anna Nicole Smith is the reason why.
Shriver, speaking Tuesday at a conference on women, said the media circus surrounding Smith's accidental drug overdose death last February led to her decision.
"It was then that I knew that the TV news business had changed and so had I," Shriver said. "I called NBC News and told them I'm not coming back."
Shriver took an extended leave from the network when husband Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for California governor in 2003. After his victory, she made two appearances as an anchor for "Dateline NBC."
In 2004, she announced she was leaving NBC News because she was unable to juggle her work as a journalist with her duties as California's first lady.
Shriver's remarks Tuesday came during the annual California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women. Schwarzenegger, preoccupied by the wildfires sweeping Southern California, made only a brief appearance via satellite at the conference.
He had been scheduled to take part in a discussion with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
They won’t have her, she’s old and all wrinkled up now.
me thinks she wasn’t going to go back no matter what...but she got to make a point...good for her.
Nice, now Maria needs to help Ahhnold find some principles, too.
Smart move,Maria.Hopefully you’ll take that Biff Steele (or whatever his name is) with you.
She quit her hobby job.
Regards
We’re going to miss you, Skeletor......
Marie’s attempt to go back to TV news could be entitled...
“CONNIE CHUNG #2”
I knew that the TV news business had changed and so had I..
well, duh.
How many people worth 800 million go back to their day jobs?
Is Schwarzenegger still governor of California? Seems like so long ago...
“Nice, now Maria needs to help Ahhnold find some principles, too.”
Are you kidding?
Who do you think is running California currently?
It isn’t the guy with the funny accent...
Good point. She was happy to look the other way at network news sleaziness as long as it was paying her millions. Now that she’s old and retired, she finds principles. You’re 25 years too late, girlfriend.
She’s looking like Sarge Shriver in drag now.
*shudders*
More important story, while cruising FR I'm listening to the death toll for the fellows from Bedford Virginia on the PBS "War".
Puts this all in stark relief.
Not too long ago we were going around with a broker checking out houses in Martinsville, Indiana when I mentioned some of the relatives. The guy says "We have something you must visit." I went there. Two not-so-distant cousins were on the WWII list of the dead in the war.
Frankly, I could care less about Maria ~
The Kennedy woman age horribly. Maria’s mother looks like she already died, and has for about 20 years now.
Unfortunately she has -- Uncle Teddy's principles
Too old and wrinkly to be invited back.
But worse of all, she’s married to a Republican so she’s blacklisted.
She’s only refraining from working so they can qualify as working poor and obtain SCHIP benefits.
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