Wednesday, October 12, 2005

the lovely but unsung Lauren Greene

One of the best newsies on FNC, as well as one of the most drop-dead gorgeous women, has to be Lauren Green. She's the regular news chick on Fox & Friends, but deserves a more prominent position, though it looks like management has Kiran Chetry pegged as the morning star-in- waiting. A few months ago I thought management was sort of auditioning both Lauren and Kiran for future morning slots, and think that Kiran won (although I wonder if her pregnancy will pose a problem for her career trajectory. I've been noticing her thickening middle for several months, but first heard her fess up to a bun in the oven last week).

Lauren is always serious about reading the news, and her business-like demeanor provides a contrast to the [often] annoying hilarity of the morning crew. She sometimes comes across as aloof; not a bad thing, I don't need for all of the FNC peeps to feel like my best friends. I'd lay money that Lauren was always the smartest and prettiest kid in her school, and that while she wasn't the most popular kid, she wasn't treated as an outcast. Bet also that she wasn't condescending and that she was willing to help others with their homework, that all the boys adored her becaue she was so lovely, and that the girls couldn't afford to snub her because of same. I really was amused last week at the rumors floating around blogland about how one of the FNC newsguys (charitably nameless here) tried to "pimp" her to Condi Rice. I realize that I'm not a guy, but it had never ever entered my mind that either either of them might be lesbians. (Also loved the hot hot hot rumor about Daran Kagan and Rush Limbaugh, but I'll leave that one for CNNers.)

I am not promoting Lauren because she is black, but because she is terrific at her job. I'm anything but a quota queen or an affirmative action babe, but I believe that diversity (no, I'm not a liberal dem either) in anything is a positive force for growth. Look at the major on-air players at FNC: Shep, O'Reilly, Brit Hume, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kendall, Greta, Neil Cavuto. All white bread, plain vanilla, youngish to young-middle-aged people, nothing there to challenge our idea of who the US is. I do think that those ahead in any field do well to lead the pack in promoting others who don't fit as easily into our notions of who we are, and ratings wise, FNC is certainly leading the pack. The sooner we voluntarily make equal room for all qualified at the "grown-up" table, the sooner wacky white guys can stop doing things like trying to become part of the Black Caucus, because groups like the Black Caucus can afford to disband.
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