> As soon as news broke about the Bombay train explosions, CNN Pipeline started simulcasting sister network CNN-IBN. The local reporting was much more compelling than what I saw on CNN or FNC…
> “Gigi Stone of ABC News is being aggressively courted by other networks,” Page Six asserts. By who?…
> Tom Dorsey laments the loss of “news” from “newsmagazinesm” and blames viewers for it: “The fault for their decline and demise is in us and not in the stargazing they’ve become addicted to…”
> An e-mailer writes: “MSNBC isn’t covering Bush’s speech; is part of their new strategy to provide counter-programming when breaking news or speeches are being covered wall to wall by other networks?…”
> NBC veteran Jay Barbree has signed a contract to write “The First 50 Years of Space” for Smithsonian Institution Press (via the Imus Show blog)…
> Did you know that “unlike most Sunday programs,” the Chris Matthews Show pays non-panelists to appear? “It’s an appropriate stipend,” Matthews tells the Inquirer. “People who’ve spent their careers developing knowledge should be paid for sharing it…”
> Ocala Star-Banner: Mark Lunsford, learning to live in front of the cameras in the wake of his daughter’s murder…
The Ticker: Pipeline, Stone, Barbree…
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