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Katie Couric’s contract with CBS News expires in May, leading many to wonder whether she’ll hop on board for more time at the network or work for another channel. (more)

With Katie Couric’s contract set to expire in early June, the anchor is closing in on a decision about whether to stay at CBS News at a reduced salary or try to stake a claim in daytime TV. (more)

Last week, while Anderson Cooper was in Egypt getting his hair tussled, Nat Hentoff wrote another pro-life column. It’s important to remember the latter when, in a few weeks, America’s brave, fearless journalists start giving themselves awards for the courage they have displayed reporting from Egypt. That is, if they haven‘t started doing so already — I mean, Katie Couric had her walk-and-talk interrupted by protestors! (more)

If the concept of the Internet was too much for “Today Show” hosts Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel to handle in the early nineties, does that mean they’re at least mildly perplexed by today’s iPad? (more)

They’re here and they’re queer. But don’t assume they’re all jumping on the gay marriage bandwagon, Katie Couric. The Against Equality collective — a group of gay activists who oppose gay marriage — has been “quietly assembling a digital archive to document the critical resistance to the politics of inclusion.” The result? A compelling pocketbook, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage. (more)

CBS anchor Katie Couric believes a “Muslim version of ‘The Cosby Show’” could open the eyes of Americans and perhaps put an end to all the ”seething hatred many people feel towards all Muslims.” (more)

Last night on Barbara’s Walters’ annually insipid “10 Most Fascinating People” special, America was shown such a textbook example of media bias, hypocrisy and incompetence that it bordered on parody. Unfortunately, almost no one knows the full magnitude of what I am referring to because numerous important truths have been conveniently omitted from the narrative surrounding the story. (more)

What newspapers do you read? It was the question that arguably did Sarah Palin the most harm during the 2008 election. (more)

Katie Couric has signed a deal to be on “Glee.” The “CBS Evening News” anchor will make a guest appearance as herself on the hit Fox musical comedy series, a source told the NY Post, adding, “The deal is done, and Katie will make a cameo as herself. It will be filmed very soon.” (more)

On Monday, Sarah Palin began her media tour for her latest book with an interview in which she defiantly declared that she would never do another interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric and castigated her for being an example of why journalism is in crisis. (more)

In an interview with “CBS Evening News,” broadcast Monday evening, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was asked by anchor Katie Couric to give her opinion of Sarah Palin, a fellow Alaska politician with whom she has had an acrimonious relationship. (more)

Co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles of President Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Commission surprised the political world Wednesday when they publicly released their own (as opposed to a full commission) five-part plan for repairing the federal government’s dire fiscal outlook. The five components of the plan include proposed reductions in discretionary spending, fundamental tax reform, targeted savings in health care entitlements, savings in other mandatory spending, and comprehensive Social Security reform. (more)

She may be a successful singer and actress, but Fergie hasn’t always had it so easy. (more)

Katie Couric might end up back on the “Today” show when her “CBS Evening News” contract expires at the end of May. A spot will be open because Meredith Vieira is expected to leave “Today” to spend more time with her family. Sources say Couric had been talking with her old friend Jeff Zucker, her producer at “Today” before he rose to CEO of NBC-Universal. (more)

Former President Bill Clinton said that Colin Powell, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during his administration, misrepresented how Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would work as the legislation was being passed into law in 1993. (more)

Simply put, it’s been an incredible week for Sarah Palin. (more)

One sanction against Iran that can be implemented before President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to address the U.N. next week is to ban him from U.S. television interviews. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It’s a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is. (more)

One of the many benefits of being Italian is that colorful stories from the “old country” trickle over to the states from time to time through relatives, friends and helpful paesani. (more)

Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new information “like piranhas in a pool.” But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in a form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement. (more)