• CNN’s “queen of quirk,” Jeanne Moos, is profiled by Glenn Garvin of the Miami Herald today. “I like to do pieces that, forever after, you’ll say, ‘Oh, yeah!’ — stories that will stick with you,” she says. “I did a story on McCain’s problems with teleprompters earlier this year, and a guy wrote me, ‘I can never watch McCain now without following his eyes.'”
Garvin brings up the various controversies caused by Moos’ pieces, including her Obama/Osama imagery. “I thought it would be Hillary and Monica that would get me in trouble,” she says. “I was going for nemeses — Hillary and Monica, McCain and Coulter, Obama and you-know-who. I thought it was funny, but everybody now is touchy, touchy.”
• Marketwatch’s Jon Friedman ended his Friday profile series of financial tvnewsers with a look at, “trailblazer,” Myron Kandel, formerly of CNN and now on PBS Nightly Business Report. “More than anyone else, Kandel and the late, great Louis Rukeyser popularized financial news on TV. Today’s broadcast journalists could learn a great deal from understanding what distinguished Kandel and Rukeyser from their peers,” writes Friedman.
In the profile, one famous tvnewser credits Kandel as a “mentor” — CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo. “Myron Kandel taught me everything about markets and the economy at the very beginning of my career and I will always cherish his friendship,” she said.