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Meridith Louise Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is a co-anchor of the "Today" Show on NBC as well as hosting the game show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Vieira previously co-hosted "The View" on ABC. Vieira also won five Emmy awards while working at CBS News. [1]
Personal Life
Vieira fondly recalled growing up with a feminist mother who disliked the "male-dominated hierarchy" of the Catholic church and how Meridith now has a "spirituality, not a religion." [2]
Vieira and her husband and their three children live in New York. [3]
Criticism
Some media newsroom insiders have questioned Meredith Vieira's objectivity, claiming that some of her past reporting includes a liberal slant. [4] [5]
Rush Limbaugh
Vieira was interviewing Wesley Clark about comments Rush Limbaugh made about the phony soldier incident. Vieira said "why don't you just brush off these comments by Limbaugh like an annoying gnat instead of legitimizing them and bringing more attention to them?" [6]
Afghanistan War
Vieira interviewed Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and she seemed so convinced that the U.S. had lost the war in Afghanistan she was perplexed when Karzai didn't share her assessment of failure. [7]
References
- ↑ Meredith Vieira - Today: It's a New Day Today MSNBC.com
- ↑ Like Couric, Meredith Vieira Recalls Growing Up With Feminist Mom Tim Graham, NewsBusters, October 29, 2007
- ↑ Meredith Vieira - Today: It's a New Day Today MSNBC.com
- ↑ Meredith Vieira: NBC Replaces Couric with Another Liberal Media Research Center
- ↑ Meredith Vieira: Liberal on Sex Ed, Roe v. Wade, The Clintons Tim Graham, NewsBusters, April 8, 2006
- ↑ Wesley Wants Rush Whacked From Military Radio; Vieira: Treat Him Like 'Annoying Gnat' Mark Finkelstein, NewsBusters, October 3, 2007
- ↑ Meredith Vieira Sees U.S. Defeat in Afghanistan Geoffrey Dickens, NewsBusters, September 24, 2007