Back when I first started working at NBC, there was an under-your-breath joke about how the network's call letters actually stood for "Nothing But Caucasians" -- at least insofar as prime time programming and on-air talent was concerned. So I'm curious to see if there will be any sort of outcry over the fact that, according to the lovely Rachel Sklar at Mediaite, Carlos Watson's show on MSNBC only managed to last a couple of months. Sklar says that Watson's officially been pulled from the anchor chair -- he was slotted into the weekday 11am spot back in June -- and will now continue only as a contributor. Watson's other recent venture, an Up With People-style website called "The Stimulist," is also on hold, or "hiatus" as Watson refers to it.
What does this all mean? Really, not much, since Carlos Watson has always been more of a goofy self-perpetuated media creation than anything else. He's the true definition of a TV "personality" -- a "host" more than a journalist. That said, he's still a smart and relatively young African-American guy who picked up a full-time cable news gig, so who knows what the reaction will be.
If you're curious as to why I'm bothering with this: Until some psychopath takes an elementary school that's showing the Obama speech hostage, it's a damn slow news day.
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