A new hero (Warning - Paris Hilton content)

You're Our Hero, Mika

- Wire Reports Included
June 30, 2007

Mika Brzezinski repeatedly refused to report on Paris Hilton's release
from jail earlier this week and attempted to set fire to the script
live on the air to make her point.

Brzezinski, co-host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, objected to leading her
bulletin Tuesday with the news of Hilton's freedom over stories about
the war in Iraq and the White House.

Brzezinski - whose father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was a national
security adviser to former U.S. president Jimmy Carter in the late
1970s - told her producers, "I hate this story and I don't think it
should be our lead," before scrunching up the script. She was given a
new version of the news bulletin but still didn't agree with the
ordering of the items and tried to burn the script with a cigarette
lighter. A third script was also destroyed, after Brzezinski put it in
the newsroom's paper shredder.

She then said, "My producer, Andy Jones, isn't listening to me. I'm
about to snap. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing the story."
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