On Thursday’s “Today” on NBC, Sirius XM host Howard Stern appeared to promote his role as a judge replacing Piers Morgan on the network’s show “America’s Got Talent,” and used the appearance to dismiss any prospect that he might return to terrestrial radio, where he thrived for decades. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matt Lauer is sticking with NBC’s “Today,” ending speculation that the top-rated show might have to face ABC’s rising “Good Morning America” without him. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Seacrest is coming to NBC, but he won’t be overthrowing Matt Lauer on the “Today” show. (more)
In an exclusive interview on the Today show set to air Thursday, Lindsay Lohan told Matt Lauer that she is “clean and sober” and wants to “continue to move forward in the right direction.” (more)
NBCUniversal is scrambling to find a replacement for no-longer-interested Today co-host Matt Lauer, whose contract ends in 2012. And the network might have struck a chord with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest. (more)
In only the past couple days, just as the Republican presidential field seems to be forming the type of void that almost begs her to fill it, Sarah Palin has once again been called “stupid” in two high-profile media outlets. (more)
Kate Hudson’s future baby daddy and Muse lead singer Matthew Bellamy, 32, are engaged. (more)
Katie Couric joined her old co-host Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today Show” Wednesday morning to discuss her new book, but instead fielded questions about future plans and hinted at a syndicated show. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Douglas says his tumor is gone and that he may have beaten throat cancer. (more)
Kanye West’s media trainer quit after just three days of working with the hotheaded rapper following his disastrous interview on the “Today” show this week. (more)
Last night’s NBC primetime interview with former President George W. Bush failed to light up the ratings charts, according to Fast Nationals from Nielsen. Final ratings will be available later today, but the early numbers indicate that the special finished fourth in its time period. (more)
Former President George W. Bush admits in his memoir “Decision Points” that his 2003 “Mission Accomplished” speech and his demeanor in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were some of the professional and personal mistakes that he made. In his first one-on-one television interview since leaving the White House, the former president sat down with Matt Lauer and opened up about his regrets. (more)
Former President George W. Bush admits in his memoir “Decision Points” that his 2003 “Mission Accomplished” speech and his demeanor in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were some of the professional and personal mistakes that he made. In his first one-on-one television interview since leaving the White House, the former president sat down with Matt Lauer and opened up about his regrets. (more)
George W. Bush’s pro-life stance solidified when he was a teenager in Texas — after his mother suffered a devastating miscarriage and showed him the fetus in a jar, the former president said in an extraordinary interview that airs tonight. (more)
NY Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, under fire for making remarks criticized as anti-gay, said Monday that discrimination against homosexuals is “horrible” and that he did not regret his controversial remarks. (more)
Parents of the 216 students in Washington, D.C. who have seen Mr. Obama’s congressional cohorts gut the Opportunity Scholarship program must have found cold comfort from the President’s soothing words on NBC. The Heritage Foundation’s able education analyst Lindsey Burke tells us what Mr. Obama said to The Today Show’s Matt Lauer: (more)
The developer behind a controversial proposal to build an Islamic center near ground zero says he’s the one ultimately calling the shots on the project and there are no discussions about moving it. (more)
Moments after Christine O’Donnell finished her victory speech Tuesday night in Dover, Del., she invited a state Tea Party leader on stage to speak. The activist promptly extended an unmistakable rhetorical middle finger to the Republican leader who has overnight become a symbol for the hated GOP establishment: Karl Rove. (more)
On Wednesday’s Today show, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry and Savannah Guthrie left the impression that Fox News’s criticism of Shirley Sherrod was the reason she lost her job at the Agriculture Department, with Lauer, in his interview with Sherrod, charging: “I don’t know who to blame here, Miss Sherrod. I mean the, the, the activist who put forward this garbage in the first place has an agenda. We shouldn’t be surprised by that. The cable news network that, that played this garbage on and on and talked about it, has an agenda. We shouldn’t be surprised by that.” But Lauer and NBC News, itself, revealed they have their own agenda, by failing to report, as the MRC’s Rich Noyes pointed out, that Fox News didn’t mention the Sherrod story until she had already left her job. (more)
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