Jenna Bush Hager’s ‘Today’ job

What NBC is getting in hiring former First Daughter Jenna Bush as a news correspondent

Former First Daughter Jenna Bush Hager is trying her hand as an NBC news correspondent, said Becca Milfeld in Politico, following “in the tradition of Meghan McCain, Liz Cheney, and other daughters of prominent Republicans who’ve waded into the media waters.” Hager will keep her part-time teaching job at a Baltimore charter school, contributing a story a month to NBC’s “Today” show on topics such as education.

If we’re so into "royal and aristocratic families,” said Glenn Greenwald in Salon, we should just openly declare it. Or we could have Jenna, Meghan, and Liz sit on a panel with Luke Russert and Jonah Golberg, moderated by Mike Wallace’s son Chris Wallace, to “bash affirmative action” and praise our “Great Meritocracy.” Seriously, with every media outlet “firing and laying off real reporters,” this is NBC’s idea of a good hire?

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