Reporter Chelsea Clinton? Time will tell

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December 13, 2011 12:31 AM
By VERNE GAY
verne.gay@newsday.com

Photo credit: AP | In this picture expelled by NBC, horde Brian Williams, left, interviews Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton, on “Rock Center with Brian Williams.”

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The good or a not-quite-so-good news on Chelsea Clinton’s
(for her anyway) counterintuitive purpose as a writer on NBC News? Agreed. Let’s start with a good first.

Clinton, whose initial coming as an NBC News writer aired Monday night on “NBC Nightly News” and “Rock Center with Brian Williams,” seems like a unequivocally good immature woman. She is apparently bright, nonetheless we already suspected she was that as well.

Otherwise, there was zero else that indispensably discharged charges (mostly by TV critics, nonetheless they were not alone) that she got this pursuit since of that name. Her voice — a initial time many of us have even listened it — was appreciative and plummy, though monochromatic; in a requisite crosstalk with Williams following her news on Arkansas amicable workman Annette Dove, she exhibited a impetuosity of any TV rookie.

And then, she spoke of her grandmother Dorothy Rodham, who died in November. The voice warmed. A relatable tellurian being emerged. “I’m unequivocally beholden to be here, and for many of my life we did deliberately lead a private life,” she said. Her grandmother exhorted her to “lead a some-more publicly eloquent life. we wish to make her proud.”

Work out a kinks. Master a craft. Learn what it unequivocally means to be a reporter. Hopefully, in time, she will.