NBC News White House correspondent
Geoff Bennett will continue to serve as the anchor of MSNBC’s 2 p.m. hour while Katy Tur is on maternity leave. (Her baby should be arriving any day now!)
Bennett started anchoring the broadcast last Thursday after Tur announced her maternity leave on Wednesday, May 5.
He joined NBC News in October 2017 after a stint covering Washington politics for NPR. Before that, Bennett covered D.C. for NY1, Spectrum’s largest cable news station, and for a variety of other regional cable news stations.
Tur’s husband, CBS This Morning co-host
Vlad Duthiers and
Enrique Acevedo in the 7 a.m. hour, and various non-CBS News celebrities in the 8 a.m. hour.
CBS This Morning co-host
Tony Dokoupil is going on parental leave, and instead of having another CBS Newser take his place, the morning show has decided to use rotating celebrity co-hosts in the 8 a.m. ET hour.
The broadcast will use CBS News correspondents during the hard news 7 a.m. hour, however. For the week of May 17th, that means
Vlad Duthiers, and the following week, 60 Minutes+ correspondent Enrique Acevedo, who anchored for years at Univision before coming to ViacomCBS.
In her memo to staff, CTM executive producer
Shawna Thomas said the show is going to be “trying something new” by using well-known TV personalities from outside of the news division to fill in for Dokoupil, whose wife, MSNBC anchor
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Actor LeVar Burton, who soon will have a stint as guest host of “Jeopardy!” thanks to a fan petition, takes a host chair on May 19 and 20.
Guest hosts for the following week are Jon Batiste, bandleader for CBS’ “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and winner of an Oscar for co-writing the original score of the animated Disney film “Soul,” and model Ashley Graham.
Using non-journalists as morning hosts is likely to cause some pearl-clutching among the traditionalists at CBS News, especially since “CBS This Morning” is often touted as being the most substantive of the network morning shows.
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The COVID restrictions from the Biden administration have become so onerous and illogical that even left-wing media outlets have begun to take notice. At the top of her 2:00 p.m. ET hour show on Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur read from a
New York magazine article openly mocking “irrational” Centers for Disease Control rules demanding children wear masks at all times outdoors while attending summer camp.
“Then there is the continued confusion over CDC guidance about masks,” Tur told viewers before citing the magazine article:
The CDC’s newly released guidance for summer camps is notable for its rigidity and strictness. Masks must be worn at all times, even outdoors, by everyone, including vaccinated adults and children as young as two years old. The exceptions are for eating and swimming. (The guidance helpfully notes that if a person is having trouble breathing or unconscious, no masks needs to be worn.)