The Ticker: Snow, Hurricanes, Koppel…

By Brian 

> Good Morning America weekend anchor Kate Snow begins reporting from Beirut this morning…

> Who was first with the news of Fidel Castro‘s surgery? A tipster says MSNBC’s David Shuster was first on the air around 9:30pm, followed by Fox and CNN a few minutes later…

> WP’s Paul Farhi: On the big screen, newspaper people “usually get the hero treatment,” while TV journalists “tend to be depicted as fatuous pretty boys and girls, mostly out for career advancement…”

> Today on CNBC: “August Anxiety: A CNBC Hurricane Special Report…”

> The Discovery Channel presents: “Ask Ted Koppel.” It’s a weekly broadband feature…

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