Reliable Source: Psych-ing out over NBC's consultants for David Gregory

Call it a collective media psych-out. When our colleague Paul Farhi wrote on Monday about the lengths NBC has gone to boost the sagging ratings for "Meet the Press" under host David Gregory, he reported that the network had hired a "psychological consultant" to interview Gregory's friends and his wife to glean insight into the man -- presumably in order to better translate the guy's likable qualities to the television audience.