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Diane Sawyer —
Gabriel Snyder · 09/16/09 04:05PMGood Morning America's Future; Time's Latest Victim
cityfile · 09/04/09 01:07PM• Who's going to replace Diane Sawyer now that she's leaving GMA? No one knows, really, but expect the changes to the show to be significant. [NYT]
• Time is shutting down its fashion-centric spin-off, Time Style & Design. Editor Kate Betts will remain with Time; six other staffers have been let go. [WWD]
• Magazine publishers are bending over backwards and offering to design ads themselves in order to keep their advertisers from fleeing. [NYT]
• A frontrunner may have emerged to acquire the Boston Globe. [NYP]
• ABC and CBS have agreed to air President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress next Wednesday. Fox, however, probably will not. [THR]
• Hollywood writers just aren't earning the cash they used to, it seems. [NYT]
• Simon Fuller, the man who brought you American Idol, now has his sights set on fashion: He's one of the people behind a new site called Fashionair. [VF]
• One more reason to hope Jay Leno's new nightly show on NBC fails: If it succeeds, you can expect every other network to dump pricey one-hour dramas and replace them with crappy live events and even crappier reality TV. [Time]
Diane Sawyer Will Take Over ABC's World News Tonight Anchor Chair
John Cook · 09/02/09 10:21AMDid ABC Digitally 'Sweeten' Whitney Houston's Disastrous GMA Performance?
Andrew Belonsky · 09/02/09 09:30AMReader's Digest Goes Ch. 11, The Weinsteins On the Brink
cityfile · 08/17/09 12:03PM• Another media company falls: Reader's Digest Association, the publisher of Reader's Digest (duh) and a handful of other titles (like Every Day with Rachael Ray), says it will file for bankruptcy protection shortly. [Reuters]
• As you may have heard, things haven't been too well for Harvey Weinstein and his brother, Bob. So what will happen if they don't turn the mini-studio around? "I'll be... making cheap hamburgers, or selling trailers, or refrigerators, or something," says (a refreshingly honest) Harvey. [NYT]
• Fashion mags are looking a bit thin this fall, in case you haven't heard. [WSJ]
• Don't expect the feud between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann to dissipate: Ratings for both have been up since the war of words began anew. [LAT]
• Comedian Steve Harvey is joining Good Morning America. In related news, comedian Mo Rocca is hosting a web-based show for CBS News. [ABC, NYT]
• District 9 was No. 1 at the box office this past weekend. [ABC News]
Nancy Grace's Novel Sounds Compelling and Very Original
Pareene · 08/10/09 02:04PMABC's Bob Woodruff Returns to Iraq
The Cajun Boy · 07/13/09 09:18PMFun New Mind-Control Toy Mesmerizes Good Morning America
Pareene · 05/22/09 01:42PMThe Bristol Grilling
Pareene · 05/06/09 02:47PMBristol Floods Morning TV To Tell Kids How Terrible Her 'Blessing' Is
Pareene · 05/06/09 09:26AMHas her being stuck between her insane mother and the vindictive family of her ex made you feel sympathetic toward Bristol Palin? Well, this morning she went on the TV to help with that.
Your (Deceased) Somali Pirates
Hamilton Nolan · 04/15/09 10:54AMGood Morning America Announces Victory on Twitter; Still Losing On TV
John Cook · 03/19/09 09:39AMGMA Interviews Sad Levi Johnston
Pareene · 03/16/09 09:23AMThe Fairly Forgettable Fire
John Cook · 03/11/09 04:28PMDiane Sawyer Flabbergasted By Holocaust Love Liar
Hamilton Nolan · 02/18/09 09:59AMFirst Video of Fabricating Holocaust Author Defending Self
Ryan Tate · 02/17/09 10:08PMA plugged-in tipster directed us to the freshly-uploaded YouTube video above, in which Rosenblat speaks to an unseen interviewer. He could be talking to a GMA producer in a pre-interview, doing media training with a publicist, who knows. (The video is carried in a YouTube channel named after Rosenblat, although the title of this video curiously misspells his last name.)
Blago's Magical Morning Show Tour
Pareene · 01/26/09 03:22PMThe Dissing Of A Good Morning America Producer?
Ryan Tate · 01/22/09 07:43PMDiane Sawyer Still Obviously Intoxicated
Pareene · 01/21/09 01:59PMThe Inaugural Balls went on all night and it looks like Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer enjoyed the open bars. Thanks, ABC, for not pulling her off the air despite all this slurred nonsense.