The Ticker: ‘This Week,’ Couric, Myers…

By Brian 

> FishBowlDC examines This Week’s recent guest lineup and asks: Is the ABC Sunday show “trying to add a bit of spice to the typically staid Washington panel discussion?…”

> The USA Today letters page includes two about Katie Couric today, one supportive and one abusive…

> A viewer says a “new ’30 Rock’ promo on NBC includes Tracy Morgan demanding Katie Couric be taken off the network for him to appear on the show…”

> “Jack Myers, the publishing and television industry veteran famous for his The Jack Myers Report… has received an offer and is mulling a possible sale,” FishBowlNY hears…

> The Christian Science Monitor: “Why cable news pursues the JonBenet Ramsey case…”

> CBS4 in Denver writes about the media circus in Boulder and the residents who want their parking spots back (via ICN)…

> John Gibson on the JonBenet cable coverage: “We always go one day too long on a story. We flog a story one day too long…”

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