Former Meet the Press Hostsに関する話題のニュースを速報でお届けします。最新情報を求める方は必見です。

First up is Martha Rountree, the show’s actual creator in 1947. Yes, a woman invented the most testosterone-fueled show on television—irony is not dead; it’s just on a sabbatical. Rountree and her co-host, Lawrence Spivak, basically invented the news interview format while wearing hats that looked like lampshades. She left after a few years, but not before proving that men could argue politics while she counted the ratings.

Rountree once described the show as “a front-page story every week.” Except the front page was printed on her iron will. She didn’t just host; she produced the thing while chain-smoking and probably inventing the phrase “ask the follow-up or I’ll fire you.”