Cindy McCain co-hosts ABC's "The View" Monday. NYDNABC News weatherdude Sam Champion fronts a "20/20" special Friday night on the weather: "Your Weather: Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity." NYDN Will Champion address stupid weathermen tricks like cute dog props?
Charlie Gibson fronting a shameless promotion of Babs Walters's new book with a special on how special she is. NYP
Echoing what I've pimped, Columbia Journalism Review advises CBS News to not pay Katie Couric's heir an obscene salary. I've gone further suggesting CBS just bag the evening news.
TV Newser: The closing session of this year's RTNDA conference pondered the question "What Would Murrow Do?"
He'd kill the formerly noble industry that spawned him in the halcyon days of TV news.
NBC could end up sold if parent company GE's earnings continue to drop. "Once-isolated calls for at least a partial breakup of the conglomerate have become a chorus, with NBC Universal, appliances and GE Money, the consumer finance unit, emerging as prime candidates for a sale or spinoff. Unloading these divisions would return billions to shareholders." NYT
Even Neutron Jack Welch went on CNBC laid it on GE head Jeffrey Immelt for lying to Wall Street with rosy earning projections that didn't materialize: “Here’s the screw-up: you made a promise that you’d deliver this and you miss three weeks later. Jeff has a credibility issue. He’s getting his ass kicked." Financial Times
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