'Person' Revival Back-Handed Salute to Murrow?

[Mark Jeffries]

Tomorrow night, CBS revives "Person to Person," the celebrity
interview series that allowed Edward R. Murrow to keep doing "See It
Now" (for a while), with Lara Logan and Charlie Rose as hosts--college
prof and HuffPo blogger Nancy Snow attacks the series as celebrating
"lower Murrow" (and slips in some predictable "corporations such"
statements):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-snow/cbs-person-to-person-murrow_b_1259009.html

[Kevin M.]

I studied Murrow a bit back in college, so I know a few things about
"Person to Person." First and foremost, it existed in a vacuum of
celebrity interviews -- they just weren't common in those days, which
is why the series generated numbers. Second, Murrow wasn't very good
as host in comparison to the other things he did better. Third, most
if not all of the Murrow P2P were live or filmed live.

Looking at the current concept, there is an onslaught of celebrity
news on TV and the internet, too much for an upstart to break through
successfully. I suppose they stuck with tradition by choosing Rose,
who is among the worst interviewers in the history of the craft, but
that isn't exactly a positive. Lastly, I see nothing about the series
being live or live to tape, which might at least lend itself to event
television where anything could happen.

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