The Ticker: Osgood, Simon, ‘Today’

By Brian 

> “Charles Osgood, the urbane host of CBS ‘Sunday Morning,’ remains hospitalized at New York’s St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Medical Center after being ‘treated’ Saturday,” NewsBlues says.

> Profiling Bob Simon: “My happiness in my work is proportional to my distance from New York.”

> Howard Kurtz: “Despite the enormous hype surrounding Edward Klein‘s scathing and hearsay-filled book about Hillary Rodham Clinton, the author has been ignored by all but two television talk shows.”

> David Bauder previews a milestone: “Nielsen Media Research should confirm Thursday that ‘Today’ has been the top-rated morning news show for 500 consecutive weeks, a Joe DiMaggio-like streak that started in December 1995.”

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