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ABC's John Stossel Jumps Ship for Fox

20/20 anchor joins fellow transplants Chris Wallace, Brit Hume

(Newser) - 20/20 anchor John Stossel is leaving ABC for Fox News and the Fox Business Channel, Mediabistro reports. The move is yet another shakeup for ABC—Stossel’s co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas is a frontrunner to replace Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America. Stossel, a frequent guest on Fox, will have a...

I Despise Kate: Jon


 I Despise Kate: Jon 


Sep 8, 2009 11:28 AM CDT

I Despise Kate: Jon

Says he didn't leave her for girlfriend

(Newser) - In a Good Morning America interview today, Jon Gosselin didn't hide his feelings about estranged wife Kate. "I can't sit on the sofa with that woman," he said, explaining that their segments of Jon & Kate Plus 8 are filmed separately. "I despise (her) because she's not...

Sawyer Faces Uphill Battle Backstage

(Newser) - Diane Sawyer finally has the job she’s been waiting for, Rebecca Dana writes for the Daily Beast: “anchor of World News, the once towering, now considerably diminished evening broadcast.” But her renewed rivalry with Katie Couric and her struggle to hold on to Charles Gibson’s ratings...

Why Sawyer Will Be Better Than Couric
Why Sawyer Will Be
Better Than Couric
OPINION
Sep 2, 2009 4:16 PM CDT

Why Sawyer Will Be Better Than Couric

(Newser) - With Diane Sawyer as the host of ABC’s World News, two of the three network nightly newscasts will be anchored by women. But Sawyer is likely to have a smoother time than Katie Couric did, writes Joshua Alston for Newsweek. For one, Sawyer will benefit from Couric’s trailblazing:...

Charles Gibson to Leave ABC's World News

Diane Sawyer will take over as nightly news anchor in January

(Newser) - Charles Gibson will step down as ABC’s World News anchor at year's end, and Diane Sawyer will take the top slot, Broadcasting & Cable reports. In an email to the staff, Gibson explains that he had earlier hoped to retire from his post at Good Morning America in 2007,...

Neeson 'Taking Each Day as It Comes'

Actor talks for the first time about wife's death

(Newser) - Liam Neeson and his boys are “taking each day as it comes,” he tells ABC. In his first interview since wife Natasha died in March, Neeson says his two sons, ages 13 and 12, are “getting along as best they can." The actor says he's "...

Sotomayor 'Tough as Nails': Brother

Calls them 'derogatory' and 'off-base,' praises sister in interview

(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor’s brother considers criticism of his sister “insulting, derogatory, off-base," the Supreme Court nominee's only sibling tells Good Morning America. “Angry is just the beginning” of how he feels about the attacks, Juan Sotomayor said, calling Sonia a “wonderful woman” and “the perfect...

Face Transplant Patient Forgives Shooter

Connie Culp still thinks about how she used to look, she says

(Newser) - The woman who had the nation's first face transplant still thinks about how she looked before her husband shot her in a failed murder-suicide attempt in 2004—but she forgives him, she said in an interview today with Good Morning America. It was the smell of soap that made Connie...

Bristol Touts Abstinence; Levi Calls Unrealistic

Contradicts earlier comment; says Tripp 'love of my life'

(Newser) - On a tour with a group battling teen pregnancy, Bristol Palin made a stop on Good Morning America, calling abstinence “realistic"—thus contradicting an earlier comment, the New York Daily News reports. “Abstinence is the only way that you can effectively, 100%, full-proof way to prevent pregnancy,...

Sperm Donor Isn't Octu-Dad: Suleman

Man: Nadya said she had ovarian cancer

(Newser) - The man who appeared on ABC's Good Morning America today as the possible dad of Nadya Suleman’s octuplets didn’t father any of her children, Suleman told Us Magazine. Dennis Beaudoin’s “not lying. He went to the doctor with me once,” she said. “It didn’...

'Octu-Dad' Bares Mom's Breast Stunt

Sperm donor believes Suleman was still married when they dated

(Newser) - A sperm donor who believes he fathered all of Nadya Suleman's octuplets said he thinks she was still married when they started dating and she asked him for sperm, reports the Huffington Post. They had been seeing each other just weeks when she took a sample of sperm he had...

Fake Holocaust Author on GMA
 Fake Holocaust Author on GMA 
Feb 18, 2009 7:00 AM CST

Fake Holocaust Author on GMA

Rosenblat makes first TV appearance since scandal

(Newser) - Holocaust memoir faker Herman Rosenblat appears on Good Morning America today in his first TV appearance since his downfall, Gawker reports. A leaked video of Rosenblat being interviewed made it onto YouTube last night, and shows the story he’s trying to spin: that he convinced himself he was the...

Oprah: 'I Could Be Senator, I'm Just Not Interested'

Winfrey 'amused' that Blago considered her

(Newser) - Oprah was “amused” by the news that Rod Blagojevich had considered naming her to Obama’s Senate seat—but would not have been interested, ABC News reports. “Absolutely not,” Winfrey said in an interview this morning, citing the demands of managing her media empire. “I think...

Blago Wanted Oprah for Senate
 Blago Wanted Oprah for Senate 
Jan 26, 2009 9:02 AM CST

Blago Wanted Oprah for Senate

Kicks off media blitz as his impeachment trial begins in Illinois

(Newser) - Rod Blagojevich considered handing Barack Obama’s Senate seat to Oprah Winfrey, he told Good Morning America today in an appearance made while boycotting his impeachment trial, which starts today. "She seemed to be someone who had helped Barack Obama in a significant way to become president," Blagojevich...

Christian School Axes Hard-Driving 100-0 Coach

Coach defended team's 100-0 blowout against learning disabled team

(Newser) - The coach of a Dallas high school girls basketball team that trounced a rival 100-0 has been fired, reports the Dallas Morning News. The Covenant School coach was canned after posting a message on a youth basketball internet site disagreeing with his school's apology for the cagers' massacre of a...

Cindy Cries 'Sexism' in Palin Uproar

McCain rips media, can't recall Palin's 'whining' zinger at Clinton

(Newser) - Cindy McCain "absolutely" believes sexism is behind the media scrutiny of Sarah Palin, the beer heiress told ABC's Good Morning America, complaining that the Palin coverage is "insulting" and "outlandish." McCain, however, said she didn't remember Palin deriding Clinton's "whine about that excess criticism" as...

Study: Breast Self-Exams Don't Improve Cancer Survival

They increase biopsies of benign lumps

(Newser) - Breast self-examinations, long recommended to women to detect early signs of breast cancer, serve no purpose, according to a review of the latest research. WebMD reports that 10-year studies of 388,500 women in Russia and China showed no improvement in survival rates from the self-exams, but revealed an added...

Cynthia Nixon: I Survived Breast Cancer

'Sex and the City' star comes clean about her battle 2 years ago

(Newser) - "Sex and the City" actress Cynthia Nixon quietly fought breast cancer two years ago while performing on Broadway, she revealed for the first time yesterday. "I didn't really want to make it public while I was going through it. I didn't want paparazzi at the hospital," the...

CBS in Talks to Outsource News to CNN

Deal would mark watershed for mother of network news

(Newser) - CBS, the network of Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite that is widely credited with inventing television news, is considering outsourcing some of its news gathering activities to CNN, according to the New York Times. No deal is imminent but talks are reportedly taking place at the highest level at both...

SNL May Have Triggered Tougher Scrutiny of Obama

Sketches lampooned starry-eyed coverage

(Newser) - A Saturday Night Live sketch 10 days ago lampooning the perceived media bias favoring Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton may have changed the way Obama has been covered in the last several days, AP reports. The SNL debate skit showing starry-eyed journalists fawning over Obama echoed complaints by Clinton's supporters....

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