CNN’s Potential Campbell Brown Problem

By Andrew Gauthier 

The New York Post

CNN is facing a sticky situation if anchor Campbell Brown‘s husband — former Bush White House adviser Dan Senor — decides to run as a Republican against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

The network will have to decide if Brown can keep hosting her 8 p.m. nightly news show — or if she would be compromised by the conflict.

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Precedents regarding TV news personalities and their politically elected spouses go both ways.

Former “Dateline” anchor Maria Shriver was bounced by NBC in 2004 shortly after her husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was elected governor of California. More…

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