The Ticker: Vieira, Coulter, Cooper…

> Meredith Vieira said goodbye to The View on Friday…

> Howard Kurtz asks: “Are news outlets being shameless in giving [Ann] Coulter a platform for her inflammatory rhetoric, knowing it will boost ratings and circulation?” As Jim Bell admits: “She’s good television…”

> The Wall Street Journal reports that CCT is making changes to what is probably the most popular news program on the planet: China’s “News Relay” “gets an estimated average audience that is roughly 14 times that of the highest-rated U.S. network news show…”

> “Here’s a news flash: Age may finally be winning out over beauty in the network news business. That is, at least for those who occupy top spots on the prestigious morning and evening news programs,” Brian Banmiller says in the Chronicle…

> Knight Ridder calls Anderson Cooper the “youthful, prematurely gray Kim Jong-Il of media cool, his image plastered all over the landscape of pop culture…”