Morning television, like other old line media institutions, has been knocked down a few pegs on the pop culture totem pole by the Internet age. But that doesn't make its workings any less interesting. The people we wake up to were always supposed to be idolized versions of ourselves -- not for nothing is the Today Show's cast called "America's First Family." A humanizing look at these stars and those who manage them -- which is what the New York Times's Brian Stelter gives us in Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV -- unravels that myth amidst the disorder of a ratings upheaval.
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