What Nicolle Wallace's firing as day-to-day panelist on THE VIEW teaches us.

Headline from the DEADLINE.com site:

Nicolle Wallace Axed As ‘The View’ Regular After Proving Herself Insufficiently Shrill And Kardashian Illiterate

Whether or not one shares Wallace's conservatism (I don't), it's educational about how the morning show THE VIEW programs viewers to accept comic-book Sort-Of-Left/Right confrontationalism about "Hot Topics" ("good television" over thoughtful discussion) and why Elisabeth Hasselbeck proved to be a hit on the show as a Loyal Opposition caricature--which propelled her to the Big Time of Fox News.

Now, Nicolle Wallace can decide whether or not to take a demotion to recurring status.

As Barbara Walters retires, some irreverent comments on her legacy.

Yes, Barbara Walters interviewed many Important News Figures and was treated abominably by then-ABC News colleague  Harry Reasoner when they were a nightly news anchor team in the 1970s.  But, for balance, the stories below need to be factored into her decades-long impact on news and infotainment.

SALON article: http://www.salon.com/2014/05/15/barbara_walterss_real_legacy_is_the_view_and_thats_worse_for_women_than_we_realize/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

HUFFINGTON POST article  in which Barbara Walters defends hiring vaccine-hating Jenny McCarthy for co-host on THE VIEW: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/03/barbara-walters-jenny-mccarthy-criticism_n_4193956.html

Article on Barbara Walters' relationship with infamous attorney (and Joseph McCarthy ally) Roy Cohn: http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2008/05/barbara-walters-why-i-was-roy-cohns.html