General Discussion

the five night a week schedule she stuck with for years was "killing" her.

She's not just doing another one hour show. For all practical purposes, she is an investigative reporter. She's a modern day Woodward and Bernstein. My guess is she's at work at 6:00 am to prepare for a show that night. It's a schedule that is brutal. And once every fact is checked, every detail is double checked, and everyone she is going to mention is contacted to see if they want to say anything before she goes on the air, she must pull herself together and get in front of the camera. And she doesn't fill much time with guests. It's her, out there all alone most of the time, reading the teleprompter, most of which contains words that she herself wrote.

That schedule is a formula for exhaustion, a breakdown, or, yes, possible death.

Try working a schedule like that for a while and see how well you fare.

(For those who don't know, Rachel is a Rhodes Scholar, but that doesn't make what she does any easier.)