It’s not always easy being a woman, especially a woman of a certain age whose income is in some ways dependent upon how she looks on national television.
“It’s a meat market and you’re a commodity,” explained “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski.
She was sharing lessons from her new memoir, “All Things at Once” — including how she was axed by CBS at the pinnacle of her career, for doing nothing wrong, on her 39th birthday.
“Everyone wanted to know what happened, but there was no story, there was no drama,” Brzezinski insisted. But Joe Scarborough, who accompanied his co-host to Politics and Prose bookstore Wednesday night told a different story.
“A top executive at CBS said you looked weird,” he said. On top of that, CBS hired Katie Couric the same week.
The memoir tells what the aging mother of two went through in her yearlong search for employment, before she eventually rebooted her career and became Scarborough’s partner in political crime.
