[anita]

Did you say Couric? She got into this sunday's

Media Nuggets

###### WH Pressroom Gets a Makeover with a wide video wall and the MSM fears that the evil genius Karl Rove & Tony Snow are conspiring to bury the reporters alive. [ Worth Reading in full. ]

###### Show Time! - NYTimes loses to Patrick Fitzgerald -> in leak case, leaking to islamic terrorists in this case. And, that 's Just the beginning.

###### Capitalising on THE Tragedy - Katie Couric will make her prime-time CBS News debut on September with 9/11 Special anchoring the "CBS Evening News" on Sept. 11 from ground zero.

###### CNN is now asking for help from its audience -> Pull out your camera and Report it for CNN. Hezbollah, Hamas & al Quieda coming direct without reporters!

###### Liberal media in jitters - Seeing the success of Examiner chain of newspapers, News Corp. to Launch Free Newspaper in London with a 400,000 copies. The 48-page, full-color paper will be given away afternoons throughout central London.

###### MTV's primetime audience shrunk 7%, and blamed mainly to the competition from the likes of "YouTube".

Buzz

###### Alina Fernandez, exiled daughter of Fidel Castro, has joined CNN as a contributor.

###### CNN Chicago bureau chief Jeff Flock jumps out to Weather Channel.

Daryn Kagan is leaving CNN. Will launch an Online venture reflecting spirituality for meaning in life and good in the world- rare in news coverage now. Friend of Rush Limbaugh, she says - "I'm creating a space where people can be inspired."

###### FNC Sheperd Smith was recalled from the Middle East earlier than planned replacing Trace Gallagher on Jeniffer Griffin's suggestion.

###### ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos is looking for interns.

###### Mika Brzezinski, (her father was National security advisor to Jimmy Carter) is out of CBS News.

###### Liberal democrat BARBARA BOXER accuses Wash.Post's Dana Milbank of trash journalism.

"This is not a joke" section

###### MSNBC producer Mike Yarvitz Gets Drunk on Scarborough Country To Simulate Mel Gibson drinking saga. [MSNBC interns relieved that Bill Clinton is not the current WH resident.]

###### Journalism group condemns White House attitude toward news media.

[Bahbah]

Sheperd Smith was recalled from the Middle East earlier than planned...on Jeniffer Griffin's suggestion.

Bwahahahah. I like her even more.

[TomGuy]

Interesting tidbit:

###### FNC Sheperd Smith was recalled from the Middle East earlier than planned replacing Trace Gallagher on Jeniffer Griffin's suggestion.

I watched one of Shep's broadcasts. He was with Jeniffer. Shep had been there for over a week (IIRC), giving his rants-disguised-as-reports. Griffin, in this broadcast, was giving Shep a history lesson of the region, the elements of the conflict, the players, etc. It was obvious Shep was lacking in that knowledge.



After the Griffin history lesson, in later reporting, Shep reverted to his rants-disguised-as-reports.

[Glad to see Griffin has the influence to get Shep sent home. I also noticed that Hemmer was back in the studio late last week. I did find Hemmer's reports informative without the emotional rants Shep tended to show.]

[maica]

Capitalising on THE Tragedy - Katie Couric will make her prime-time CBS News debut on September with 9/11 Special anchoring the "CBS Evening News" on Sept. 11 from ground zero.

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Slight correction: Katy starts on Sep 5, and will anchor her Sep 11 show from Ground Zero.

Even though it is hypocritical of CBS to do this, it is a good thing. The more Americans have reminders of the World Trade Towers existence in time the better. Our BDS media have tried for the past five years to airbrush their existence from all Americans' memories.

[Miss Marple]

There is always something in your media nuggets which cheers me, anita! For example, this little line made me smile:

###### FNC Sheperd Smith was recalled from the Middle East earlier than planned replacing Trace Gallagher on Jeniffer Griffin's suggestion.

This is such a cheerful nugget that I am going to post it over on the Middle East thread, where the agitation about Shep Smith's coverage nearly reached critical mass before he was sent home.

[rodguy911]

Once again brilliant stuff here anita.<p.

The rats just can't stand it that Tony Snow is now in charge and they can't get away with journalistic murder anymore,and Katie Kouric will ultimately engender fewer and smaller ratings than old half dead Bob Shieffer did IMHO.

[CedarDave]

###### Capitalizing on THE Tragedy - Katie Couric will make her prime-time CBS News debut on September with 9/11 Special anchoring the "CBS Evening News" on Sept. 11 from ground zero.

Remember during the 2004 election, when any hint of 9/11 was taboo in a Bush re-election commercial. Guess its o.k. though to use it to boost TV ratings by a news reader disguised as a journalist or news anchor.