Fired ‘Meet the Press’ Host Still Not Happy with NBC

Anyone who has followed NBC news the past few years knows it’s been a wee bit tumultuous there. There was Brian Williams’s fall from grace, but before that, there was another notable name to leave a prominent job on the network: David Gregory.

Gregory, who was at NBC in various roles for 20 years, was fired from his hosting gig at Meet the Press last year. Seems like he’s still sore with his former employers, judging by what he told the panel at CBS This Morning.

“It was unpleasant,” Gregory said. “Things happen in television news. We know that. It’s a tough business, and you know the only thing I say about it, I don’t want to go back and revisit it, is that it was handled in a way that was unnecessary. NBC made a business decision that you can agree with or disagree with, and it didn’t need to be handled in that way.”

Gregory has been frank about how his attitude helped sabotage his career, saying his arrogance made it easy for him to be shown the door: “I just tried to internalize what I take away from it, what I could have done a little better in terms of how I treated people so that people might have been rooting for me a little more both within NBC and the broader community.”

In an interview with New York magazine, Gregory was asked, "For years, you would say the motto 'If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press.' So now for you, if it’s Sunday, it’s what?” He told the magazine, “To be honest, it’s not waking up so early.”

The newsman seems to be at peace with what happened and is able to laugh about it: “I don’t miss NBC. I don’t miss being there. It was just the wrong atmosphere for me.”