March 19, 2055, Broadway: the Belasco Theater in New York and it is opening night for the previews of "I Will Always Love You," the story of the last days in the life of Whitney Houston which takes place, almost in its entirety in the Hilton Hotel suite where she...

In advance of Gayle King's interview Wednesday morning with Michelle Obama, I had suggested that an interview with a first lady is a true litmus test for the strength of a new morning show anchor.

As former executive producer of ABC's Good Morning America and former senior executive producer...

As a former Senior Executive Producer of a past CBS News morning show incarnation, I write this headline with a more generous heart than may appear; I always root for news shows to thrive and headlines like this just might help trigger a surge of competitive juice that pumps ferociously...

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has launched one of the most fascinating CYA campaigns in memory, in public everywhere serving as a moral compass on everything from the firing of Joe Paterno ("It was the right thing to do") to the question of whether or not to fire the graduate assistant...

Poor Gloria Cain. I'm afraid Herman Cain's wife of 43 years is about to suffer some of the indignities experienced by the women who have accused him of egregious groping and abuse of power.

There will be many who won't believe Gloria Cain's words, many who think she's only speaking...

Oh, the joy to watch a brilliant news interview, the work of a master such as Bob Costas who, like a knight out of our journalism story books, charged onto NBC's new high-tech set Monday night and delivered a low tech tour de force.... phoner!

As happens in all high...

There was a game-changing moment for one candidate in last night's Republican debate on CNBC and it wasn't Herman Cain, who must be so relieved that someone else will be the brunt of political jokes in the next news cycle.

Texas Governor Rick Perry not only shot himself in the...

How fitting that on the day that Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted of Involuntary manslaughter, the second installment of Rock Center aired, featuring yet another empty, cringe-worthy live celebrity interview by Brian Williams.

As clear as we saw that Dr. Murray could not say "no" to Michael Jackson, it is...

It's difficult to be critical of Brian Williams' new primetime magazine show which debuted this week on NBC: Rock Center has stated only noble intentions in the swampy landscape of broadcast news.

The new Comcast executive team has committed two years for building what they...

As soon as I heard the breaking news of the death of Steve Jobs last night, I felt compelled to write a thank you note to him and bring it, along with a rose and a red apple, to his flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Maybe, maybe the...

I, for one, will miss Andy Rooney, who at 92, is closing out a 47-year career at CBS News during which time he walked the halls with other broadcast giants such as Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly, Walter Cronkite, Don Hewitt, Mike Wallace and more.

He also worked along side...

Has broadcast news been subconsciously bullied, compromised by the large amount of ad dollars pharmaceutical companies have pumped into their shrinking flagship programs?

Or was it just too hard to resist focusing on another Michele Bachmann gaffe instead of the most important thing she, or just about anyone has had...

The war for the Oprah Space Begins.

Yesterday the first shot was fired around the talk show world as Warner Brothers officially entered the battle to replace Oprah.

The queen of the talk entered the arena by launching her own heir apparent, Dr. Oz under her Harpo banner.

Tsunami of Sunday Morning Quarterbacks

Here they come, all the critics mocking the news coverage of Hurricane Irene, the storm that seems to have made some cynics think it was all about politics and Nielsen ratings.

I for one am grateful for every member of a "team...

CELEBRATING THE iGENIUS OF OUR GENERATION

The news that Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO, however one prepared for the inevitable, still came as a swift punch in the stomach. Especially coming on the heels of the August 10th announcement, however ephemeral, that Steve Jobs' Apple surpassed...

Life Is Good Again

The U.S. Treasury did not default. Gabby Giffords returned to Capitol Hill to cast her vote and rally her House colleagues of the importance of unity. And it looks like our grandchildren will be paying off our nation's debt. Good news breaking all around (at least...

Some people have all the luck and Dominique Strauss-Kahn is one of them. He's had good political fortune. He married a billionairess. Now, it turns out, the 32-year-old housekeeper who accused him of raping her while on the job in the Sofitel Hotel is looking like a terrible witness. In...

He Called the President WHAT!?

I heard it myself. Today, MSNBC's senior political analyst, Mark Halperin said President Barack Obama "acted like kind of a dick yesterday" while discussing politics on Morning Joe.

Joe Scarborough seemed genuinely in a panic over Halperin's language, as he scrunched his face...

So You Think Lady Gaga Is the Only One "Gaming the Numbers?"

This week, ABC News sent out an exciting press release on the growing success of GMA, contents of which TVNewser ran online today:

Meanwhile, #2 "Good Morning America" is attracting its largest audience in four...

A soon as Roger Ebert suffered a scorching backlash for tweeting "Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive," Facebook shut down his page over the stream of abusive comments. So it is with keen awareness of the personal risk that I add my own two cents: neither should bartenders.

We...