How Did MSNBC's Phil Griffin Get To TV With An English Degree?

Just when he thought the 2008 presidential election couldn’t get any more interesting than the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton primary showdown, Phil Griffin cast his eyes northward. He could hardly believe his luck.There stood Sarah Palin, a former beauty queen with a tart tongue, a winking eye, and an Eskimo husband. “She made this election,” the president of MSNBC told about 200 students and faculty at Vassar College Tuesday night. “You couldn’t make this stuff up.” (Via Inside Cable News)

Griffin: “The traditional business model is dead and everyone in Big Media is freaked out.” Most of the kids had seen the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview - but not one watched it on the CBS Evening News.