Questions: About FNC “Shakeup,” Cafferty, The Early Show, Pinto, GMA, CNBC Prime…

Got answers, or more questions? Drop ’em in the tip box…

> A tipster hints: “Roger Ailes is on a tear. Major shakeup this fall… new people coming in to help the old.” True? Update: 12:35pm: “I wouldn’t say that Ailes is ‘on a tear,'” an e-mailer says. “He simply wants to ‘up the standards’ as he has said in terms of quality of programming. It’s cyclical in terms of demands. When things start to slip, Ailes gets aggressive. Regarding the old coming back to help the new, some people may be coming back ‘downstairs’ from the executive offices to guide things back to where they were.”

> Who was Jack Cafferty talking about yesterday when he complained about “some prudes in authority today because the regular executive producer is off?” Apparently one of the Cafferty File e-mails didn’t get “past the censors…”

> An e-mailer asks: “Have you noticed what CBS is doing on The Early Show? Very quietly they are trying the different female cohosts, one at a time, with Harry Smith. That’s because the word is The Early Show will go to Smith and a female (maybe not one already there) by this fall…”

> Is frequent Nancy Grace fill-in and Court TV commentator Lisa Pinto looking for a paying gig at a news net?…

> Is 48 Hours executive producer Susan Zirinsky talking to David Westin about the GMA job? A tipster says “the new EP of GMA is a CBS news veteran, and talks are almost complete…”

> Is anyone watching CNBC’s rotating specials at 8pm? I’ve been enjoying the Survival Guide and Fast Money episodes…