The Ticker: Couric, Cooper/Chappelle…

By Brian 

> At the Aspen Ideas Festival, according to Arianna Huffington: Katie Couric, “when asked about her famous on-air colonoscopy, smiled that $15 million smile and promised that for her new job she’d up the ante and get an on-air pap smear…”

> Sharyn Alfonsi, Hampton Pearson, Uma Pemmaraju, Martha Raddatz, Dawn Frantangelo: They all cut their teeth in Boston local TV, the Herald proudly notes…

> Dave Chappelle talked to Anderson Cooper exclusively on 360 Friday night…

> “Let’s face it: the only way to get young folks to watch news is, as CNN has discovered, to take the news out,” Harry Shearer pessimistically concludes…

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