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governor-eliot-spitzer_6.23.10.jpgCan Former Governor Spitzer Really Make A Big Prime-Time Comeback? (NY Observer)
How did Eliot Spitzer, the Harvard Law School graduate-turned-crusading New York Attorney General-turned-middling New York governor-turned-Client No. 9-turned-disgraced tabloid punching bag-turned real estate family man-turned Slate columnist, suddenly amount to a viable cable news candidate? The truth is, a solid foundation in scandal has come to be a perfectly respectable starting point for any small-screen aspirant hoping to break through in an age of hundreds of channels and on-demand everything. TVNewser: Former NY governor Eliot Spitzer and columnist Kathleen Parker have signed a contract with CNN.

CBS News Exec: We're Covering Afghanistan Less Due To Lara Logan's Pregnancy (HuffPo)
CBS News' No. 2 exec made a strange confession to Broadcasting & Cable magazine: the network isn't covering Afghanistan as much as it used to because war correspondent Lara Logan is out on maternity leave. "I would think that the biggest factor in how much less we've had on the air really has to do with Lara Logan's pregnancy than it does with anything else," CBS News Executive VP Paul Friedman said.

Reporter 'Outs' Lutheran Pastor -- By Crashing Confidential Support Group (Minn Post)
Pastor Tom Brock isn't the first clergyman to be outed as gay after condemning gay behavior. But Brock may be the first outed by a reporter who faked his way into a confidential 12-step program. In a cover story published Friday, Minneapolis-based Lavender magazine exposed the pastor's struggles and desires as recounted to a support group for gay men "struggling with chastity." Lavender Media president and CEO Stephen Rocheford confirms Townsend was sent into the program "undercover."

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