FishbowlDC has obtained an internal email sent to some FNC staffers following a meeting between "between senior managers and the folks who run the daytime shows." The email claims there will be a zero tolerance policy toward on-screen errors going forward, saying that such errors "may result in immediate disciplinary action."

"Please know that jobs are on the line here," it says.

According to the memo, producers will also be initiating "zero base" production, in which they "will start by going to air with only the most essential, basic, and manageable elements."

We may then build up again slowly as deadlines and workloads allow so that we can be sure we can quality check everything before it makes air, and we never having to explain, retract, qualify or apologize again.

FishbowlDC has the full memo.

There's been lots of discussion about what Lou Dobbs is up to right now, but what about the "Lou Dobbs Tonight" staff?

At the moment, they're producing the temporary Dobbs replacement, "CNN Tonight." That program is scheduled to run until John King's new show begins sometime until early 2010 -- from Washington, DC.

The NYPost reports the former Dobbs staffers, "were told that they could start applying for new jobs at the all-news network -- with the clear implication that their old jobs were going to end shortly."

A CNN spokesperson told TVNewser: "CNN is encouraging Lou Dobbs' staff to apply for positions at the 7pm program as well as for other openings within the network."

Insiders tell us that CNN management has been talking with the staff about the future since the day after Dobbs' departure.

As far as two of Dobbs' regular correspondents, Kitty Pilgrim and Bill Tucker, the CNN spokesperson could not comment on specific individuals.

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Beck:	Baier:	Shep:	O'Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O'Reilly:
	579	452	385	911	750	464	450
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	Tonight:	Brown:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:
	126	139	164	187	145	147	157
MSNBC	Matthews:	EdShow:	Matthews:	Olbermann:	Maddow:	Special:	Special:
	79	140	184	270	244	116	50
HLN	Prime:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	Behar:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	124	117	165	278	138	173	174

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Fox News Channel's Alisyn Camerota is a busy lady -- wife, mother of three (including twins), anchor -- so she's looking for a personal assistant. And she's reaching out to students/recent alum of NYU to help. Best benefit: you'll "get face time with one of FOX News Channel's top anchors."

***A TOP FOX NEWS CHANNEL ANCHOR IS LOOKING FOR A PERSONAL ASSISANT***

Alisyn Camerota, host of FOX and Friends weekend, is looking for a dependable responsible journalism student or recent graduate to help her with show research, pitch screening, social networking and production. If you are looking to learn more about broadcast news and get face time with one of FOX News Channel's top anchors, this is the job for you!

She wants someone who is passionate about the news industry and understands the importance of deadlines and good research. Knowledge of Facebook, Twitter and WordPress is a plus. She needs someone who is organized and reliable to commit to 8 hours a week. You can work from home, but you may be required to meet her around Midtown Manhattan.

DEADLINE: DEC. 7, 2009

RATE: $12.00 hr.

HOURS: 8 to 10 a week
LOCATION: Your home, sometimes meeting in New York City, (subway/taxi fare reimbursed).

We're leaving off the contact info, since most of you reading this probably aren't "a dependable responsible journalism student or recent graduate."

> Update: The author of the job posting reached out to us to let us know Camerota did not approve the ad.

Later this week, Lifetime will air a co-branded special called "Rihanna Speaks Out: A Lifetime and 20/20 Special," reports B&C. The special will feature segments from the popstar's sit down with ABC News' Diane Sawyer that aired earlier this month on "20/20" and "Good Morning America."

This is not the first time that Lifetime has re-aired ABC News interview footage, but it's unusual for the network to run an interview like this so soon after its original airing. Lifetime licensed the program from ABC for four airings and is also broadcasting a movie that deals with domestic abuse in conjunction with the special.

An ABC News spokesperson tells us that it made sense for this particular interview to rerun sooner because of its timeliness and because of the response it garnered -- calls to the national domestic violence hotline for teens went up 73% after the interview's original airing.

To no one's surprise, it appears Sarah Palin won't be speaking to Katie Couric during her book tour.

Hotline's On Call reports Couric's producer sent two requests to Palin's publisher for interviews during the Going Rogue tour, "and so far, Couric has been denied," reports the site.

During the week-long tour so far, Palin has been asked repeatedly about the Sept. 2008 interviews, which garnered Couric an award.

Early this morning, ABC News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi gave birth to a baby boy, Wyatt Kristensen Eby. Prior to her maternity leave, Alfonsi regularly reported for "Good Morning America," "World News" and "Nightline."

(Photo: ABC/Donna Svennevik)

Al Roker has written his first murder-mystery, The Morning Show Murders: A Novel, out tomorrow. But "it's not deadly serious, no pun intended," Roker says in an Amazon.com video. "I think it's a lot of fun."

Murders is about fictional character Billy Blessing, who does cooking segments for a morning show and is suspected of killing the program's executive producer.

"The one thing I will state, right now, categorically, I have never killed my executive producer," Roker says on Amazon, while joking that "there have been a couple I wanted to kill!"

Today EP Jim Bell jokes with USA Today that the book is "sadly very telling...they're your best friends, and then they go to a fictional side and it's obvious they want to kill me. It's so obvious."

TVNewser's Kevin Allocca will be at Roker's book party in New York tomorrow night, with a report on Wednesday.

FishbowlDC has the memo from NPR which announces that "Morning Edition" news anchor Carl Kasell is leaving the post at the end of the year. "[B]ut happily for all of us," writes programming VP Margaret Low Smith, "he isn't going far. Carl will continue to be the Official Judge and Scorekeeper for Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"

Carl joined NPR in 1975 as a part-time newscaster and was on the air 30 years ago this month when Morning Edition premiered.

The NYTimes' Brian Stelter notes that Oprah's departure might have an unexpected effect for CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric and the evening news landscape:

Closely watching, as well, will be evening news anchors like Katie Couric. "World News" on ABC, to be anchored by Diane Sawyer beginning in January, has historically been given a lift by "Oprah," analysts say, to the detriment of the third-place "CBS Evening News" with Ms. Couric.

Interestingly, Couric's contract with CBS is up in 2011, which coincides with the conclusion of Oprah's run, a fact that is sure to drive more speculation about the anchor and her future.

You can still vote in our TVNewser poll asking Which TVNewser will be the next Oprah.

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This morning on the Menu, GalleyCat's Jason Boog and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven talked about the ubiquitous Glenn Beck: the radio show, the TV show, the stage shows, the books and now a political movement. The guys also talked about the phenom that is "Twilight," and Microsoft's $upport of News Corp.'s planned pull-out of Google.

First On TVNewser: CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenivasan is leaving the network to become a news anchor and reporter at PBS's The NewsHour, TVNewser has learned. A formal announcement is expected Monday morning.

Sreenivasan joins the program as it gears up for a re-launch of sorts on December 7. Along with a name change — from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer to the PBS NewsHour — the show will merge its broadcast and digital platforms. In that vein, Sreenivasan will anchor the broadcast program's nightly news summary while also reporting and anchoring for PBS NewsHour online.

Sreenivasan joined CBS News in 2007. Previously, he was at ABC News and CNET.

> Update: Official press release after the jump...

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