The Ticker: Sawyer/Roberts, Kristof/FNC…

> Today beat Good Morning America by 605,000 viewers last week, even though viewers tuned in for Charlie Gibson‘s last day. Friday’s Star Jones interview delivered 5,955,000 viewers, helping Today beat GMA by 1,800,000…

> Calling Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts a “dynamic duo,” Time Magazine says “ABC breaks ceilings at breakfast,” noting that the GMA pair is “a.m. network TV’s first male-free team of anchors…”

> On a related note, an e-mailer says: “Did anyone else watch GMA this morning? ABC clearly seems to be testing the chemistry between Sawyer, Roberts and Bill Weir…”

> Nicholas Kristof in the NYT: “When I was covering the war in Iraq, we reporters would sometimes tune to Fox News and watch, mystified, as it purported to describe how Iraqis loved Americans. Such coverage (backed by delusional Journal editorials baffling to anyone who was actually in Iraq) misled conservatives about Iraq from the beginning. In retrospect, the real victims of Fox News weren’t the liberals it attacked but the conservatives who believed it…”

> Tonight on 360: Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, and “inspiring stories of unsung heroes from the Gulf Coast region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina…”