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Once this presidential campaign has ended, Tom Brokaw will take his two-plus decades in the anchorman chair and his "Greatest Generation" millions and retire -- leaving Peter and Dan to soldier on desperately as if competing to see which one will become the Strom Thurmond Iron Man of the anchor desk. We must honor Brokaw for this, for having the humility to leave before the game of firing up the liberal-bias projector passes him by. But he's apparently going out like Walter Cronkite, declaring how his heart pounds for the less fortunate, spitting on his General Electric overlords and beating...

Through Turmoil and Tragedy, a Peppy News Pro Wakes Us with a Smile Premieres: Jan. 4, 9 p.m. Encores: Jan. 5, 12 a.m.; Jan. 6, 8 p.m. She hates the P-word, but you can hardly describe Katie Couric without saying "perky." For millions of Americans, she and Today cohost Matt Lauer represent a human jolt of caffeine. Yet for all her cheeriness, she has been lauded as one of the best in the business, slipping easily between serious topics and infotainment. Catch this E! True Hollywood Story, when it premieres Sun., Jan. 4, at 9 p.m., and see how Couric...

More Runners-Up Quotes in MRC's Awards for the Worst Reporting      Monday's CyberAlert featured the winners and Tuesday’s the first runners-up. So today, the second and third runners-up quotes in the MRC's “Best Notable Quotables of 2003: The Sixteenth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.”      For the winners, see item #4 in the December 29 CyberAlert: www.mediaresearch.org      For the first runners-up, see the December 30 CyberAlert: www.mediaresearch.org      And for the names of the 46 judges, see item #5 in the December 29 CyberAlert: www.mediaresearch.org      Or, you can find it all on the MRC Web site...

On NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw earlier this evening, during the story about Gore's endorsement of Dean, Andrea Mitchell referred to the Supreme Court's decision "which denied Gore the Presidency."