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Nov 19 2007 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Shep Smith, Mrs. Obama, Bed Bugs...

-Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, whose accomplishments include "bringing presentational techniques seen in nonserious TV journalism...to hard news," has a fat new contract worth $7 million to $8 million a year. [NYT]

-Maybe he demands that much to put up with the bed bugs? Apparently FNC's studios are infested. [TVNewser]

-"Tyrannical" Early Show producer Shelly Ross is making enemies and causing staffers to flee at CBS. [P6]

-Barack Obama's wife will co-host The View next month. [NYP]

-Treating Wikipedia as a reliable research tool is bad enough. But plagiarizing from it? [NYT]


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