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Matt Lauer has been the focal point of a media barrage in the last week, and for not very great reasons. Seems the Today Show is a cupboard packed to the brim with backstabbing and a whole bunch of other nonsense. Then the reports of NBC offering the show to Anderson Cooper emerged and, well, things don’t look like they’re going to get any better for Matty.

Enter Mark Zinni, former Today Show intern. In his own words from Fox 8:

If you know me, you probably know that I don’t take myself too seriously. So, my answer was more of a joke about being young and naive during my time at Today, but I added that he wasn’t nice to me.

I didn’t slam the guy, I just made an honest comment.

Darren tweeted my comment which was followed-up by a viewer who asked a more direct question.

My response? “How do I say this….? He was… Not nice.”

Lauer, who isn’t extremely active on Twitter, saw the tweet and responded. Because, why not?

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And that, friends, is how Zinni became an internet famous person for a day.

He’ll now return to hokey jokes and putting on big sweaters for moderately watched local newscasts.

This article appears in Mar 27 – Apr 2, 2013.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

7 replies on “Matt Lauer is Sorry He Was Mean to Fox 8’s Mark Zinni”

  1. News/entertainment at the national level and two words come to mind…Prima Donna….
    And Lauer isn’t even one of the bad ones I bet…

  3. It seems that Matt is doing alot of damage control with his sorry excuse for a “I am sorry” ya know Matt this stuff is coming back to smack you! You can be a bit pompus, have seen this on shows! Sorry Matt it may be time for you to have a wake up call.

  4. Matt Lauer and all of NBC are feeling the heat from letting Ann Curry go. These so called journalist from NBC, are now friends ro the Karsh…..and they call it news.

  5. No one cares. I’ve never watched this stupid show, and I don’t care to start watching now. Hopefully all this nonsense goes away soon because I’m sick of hearing about Matt whatshisface.

  6. Oh yeah…I have a job therefore do not have the time to invest in these talking heads….Besides if I am at home my tv doesnt get turned on till after 7:30p and that is just in time for Jeopardy….

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