The Ticker: Pipeline, Stone, Barbree…

> As soon as news broke about the Bombay train explosions, CNN Pipeline started simulcasting sister network CNN-IBN. The local reporting was much more compelling than what I saw on CNN or FNC…

> “Gigi Stone of ABC News is being aggressively courted by other networks,” Page Six asserts. By who?…

> Tom Dorsey laments the loss of “news” from “newsmagazinesm” and blames viewers for it: “The fault for their decline and demise is in us and not in the stargazing they’ve become addicted to…”

> An e-mailer writes: “MSNBC isn’t covering Bush’s speech; is part of their new strategy to provide counter-programming when breaking news or speeches are being covered wall to wall by other networks?…”

> NBC veteran Jay Barbree has signed a contract to write “The First 50 Years of Space” for Smithsonian Institution Press (via the Imus Show blog)…

> Did you know that “unlike most Sunday programs,” the Chris Matthews Show pays non-panelists to appear? “It’s an appropriate stipend,” Matthews tells the Inquirer. “People who’ve spent their careers developing knowledge should be paid for sharing it…”

> Ocala Star-Banner: Mark Lunsford, learning to live in front of the cameras in the wake of his daughter’s murder…