The Ticker: Logo, Scarborough, Snow…

By Brian 

> MSNBC quietly previewed its new graphics package during ‘Your Business’ on Sunday morning. The new horizontal logo is small and unobtrusive. ICN has more…

> In today’s WP, Peter Baker uses Joe Scarborough‘s recent “Is Bush An Idiot?” segment as a springboard for a piece titled “Pundits Renounce the President.” Howard Mortman responds…

> FNC contributor Martin Frost‘s wife Kathryn died Thursday after a four-year battle with breast cancer…

> A TV Spyer asks: “With Fox News sending out higher profile talent like David Asman, Gregg Jarrett, Page Hopkins, Patti Ann Browne, Julie Banderas, and the like — and not to mention freelancer Darby Dunn — doing overnight news updates, may we have seen the last of Donna Fiducia and/or Carol Iovanna, at least on FNC if not Fox News altogether? Who else could be leaving?…”

> GMA Weekend anchor Kate Snow goes whitewater rafting: “It’s when I can no longer feel my ankles that I start to wonder: Was this really the smartest idea?…”

> Friday’s Financial Times: “By its nature, TVNewser is a paradox. It is an example of a new media venture that has thrived on its founder’s obsession with an old media dinosaur…”

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