[Fintan]

Pauley decided not to renew her contract, opting instead to begin the next phase of her career...

Lemme guess...a new talk show with a coffee table & sofa, discussing women's issues and "world events" from a female perspective?

[retiredtexan]

do not watch nbc news, so will not miss her.

[Sloth]

Pauley decided not to renew her contract, opting instead to begin the next phase of her career, said Ann Curry, a co-anchor on the "Today" show. The decision to leave the network was not an easy decision for Pauley but "she felt the urge to try new things," Curry said.

This is industry code for "The network gave her the boot because she's too old."

[aShepard]

So where's the pictures?? Jane's a classy woman!

[Mamzelle]

Jane Pauley is still *alive*!?

[Numbers Guy]

My favorite Jane Pauley factoid: Her name is Margaret Jane Pauley. And she's married to Garry Trudeau. So she could be called Margaret Jane Pauley Trudeau. Or Margaret Trudeau for short. Now where are the Rolling Stones?

[truthkeeper]

I would take Jane over that that horrible Couric woman any day of the week. She's a lovely gal.

[N. Theknow]

And now for something entirely different on MSNBC...

Mr. Donohue...your replacement is here.

[Michael Barnes]

who?

[Semper Paratus]

Now if only Trudeau would retire his unfunny comic strip and move to Patagonia with his wife.

[eleni121]

New things for Jane? Please please please...replace anything that Baba Walters is doing....

[rwfromkansas]

When I used to watch Dateline, I liked Pauley. She probably is a liberal, but at least she is not like Couric.

[Willie Green]

One of the few times I ever admired Jack Welch was when he made Jane Pauley eat crow on air after GM proved NBC falsified a story on exploding pickmeup truck gas tanks. LOL! It looked like Pauley had tears in her eyes as she sucked on a bar of soap!

[pray4liberty]

Hey, after 27 years, the woman is entitled to her private life, and at least a year off! Maybe NBC is a sinking ship and she's too smart to go down with them.

Can't say the same for Botox Katie, though.

[NEWwoman]

Just wondering and half kidding. Is her next phase being part of the liberal talk radio/TV movement to counter Rush, Sean Hannity, etc.?

[Mamzelle]

My favorite Pauley memory...her interview of Marilyn Quayle. It seems that Mrs. Quayle's mom used to play religious tapes when Marilyn was a little girl. Pauley kept bring this up during the interview, clearly implying that this was really a creepy thing for Marilyn's mom to have done and that it probably left Marilyn hopelesssly tainted. There was a nasty smirkiness to JP's demeanor, a real junior-high-school girl's-locker room meanness. Couldn't stand her from that day, and stopped watching. Later on, I thought she had dropped completely from sight, but I guess I haven't watched her where she landed.

Both the Trudeau's have a weird thing about the Quayles. Gary Trudeau supported the "Speedway Bomber" (in jail for injuring a family with bombs) because the jailbird claimed to have some dirt on Dan Quayle.

Later on, Trudeau used a hissing bomb to be the "icon" for Newt Gingrich. Wonder if Trudeau also has a thing for bombs? Nah, he just doesn't have enough artistic talent to actually draw Newt.

His cartoons look as if they're generated by stencils. No talent.

[Paul Atreides]

Please Jane, try to become the liberal Rush. I would enjoy seeing a good crash and burn.