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“Today” show correspondent Peter Alexander and WJLA main anchor Alison Starling are just about a week into their new life as husband and wife. Alexander and Starling married last Saturday on the roof of the Newseum in Washington, DC.

The couple met while they were both reporters in Seattle, he at KCPQ (FOX) and she at KIRO (CBS).

They remained friends after leaving the city, started dating and got engaged in Paris last August. AllDAY reports the DC couple is delaying the honeymoon until after the election.

(Photo: Greg Gibson Photography)

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Tonight on Piers Morgan‘s show, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is on to talk about her new HBO show “Veep” which bows Sunday.

Morgan asks the actress if she had “more or less sympathy” for Fox News political analyst Sarah Palin as Louis-Dreyfus prepared for her role as the Vice President. “I have more sympathy for all women in government. I think that being…a woman in a position of power is tricky,” she says. “I think the more women we have in power the better off our country will be.”

“More Sarah Palins?” Morgan asks. “No. Not more Sarah Palins in my opinion,” adding, “I’d like a hundred more female democrats.”

TVGuide’s Stephen Battaglio chats with FBN’s Melissa Francis whose penning a memoir due out later this year. Francis, who went from child star, to Harvard, to business network anchor, gets praise from a former boss:

“She has a playful yet inquisitive edge to her that makes her different than the die-cast cable anchors,” says “Piers Morgan Tonight” executive producer Jonathan Wald, who worked with Francis at CNBC.

As the Girl Scouts of the USA celebrates its 100th anniversary, we’re finding out which  tvnewsers once were Scouts themselves.

The girl pictured at right?  Yup, it’s Katie Couric, who tells ABC News online of having competed for the ‘Most Creative Dish’ award at a troop cookout.  Despite the steak sandwich she whipped up, she lost out, “much to my chagrin”.

The lesson she learned? “Sometimes life isn’t fair. It can be tougher to swallow than a steak sandwich, but that’s the way the hoagie roll crumbles.”

PBS’ Judy Woodruff also was a Scout, for about nine years. “It broadened my horizons in an important way,” she says, “and I’ll always be grateful to the Girl Scouts for that.”

Before he died a week ago today, conservative author Andrew Breitbart and his team were in the process of vetting videotapes from Pres. Obama’s college days. One of those videos is now out and posted on Breitbart.com. This morning on “Starting Point” Soledad O’Brien had on Joel Pollak, EIC of Breitbart.com.

The video shows the late Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell being introduced and embraced by Barack Obama at a rally. After playing the video and debating its merit, O’Brien asked Pollak: “If your bombshell is that Derrick Bell is a radical … is that what you’re trying to say? I’m just trying to understand what the bombshell is, because I haven’t seen a bombshell yet.”

“The bombshell is happening right here on this program,” said Pollak, “Where we have a story and you’re not interested in telling your viewers who Derrick Bell actually is.” Watch:

The conversation continued with a panel including the actor Jay Thomas and Amy Holmes of “The Blaze.” Watch that, after the jump, via Breitbart.TV.

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Politico’s Keach Hagey took the temperature of conservative Americans at CPAC last week, asking them if their favorite channel had changed.

“I’ve gone from all Fox to no Fox, and replaced it with CNN, which I think right now is giving me a much fairer analysis of what’s going on,” says Virginia radio talk show host John Fredericks. “I feel they’ve lost that independent conservative mantra that had drove people like me to them.”

Since Fox News founder Roger Ailes announced a “course correction” last Fall, the network has hired liberal activist Sally Kohn and may be testing the waters for a Web show fronted by liberal commentator Jehmu Greene. And these loyal viewers have complained it’s not a course they like. From Politico:

“Something is happening at Fox News,” wrote one Red State blogger last month. “More often these days I hear the language of the Left entering their news programs. Conservative points of view are becoming more rare on Fox and/or treated with scorn…it may not be admitted, but I believe the left’s boycott of Fox is having an effect.”

But Fordham University media professor Paul Levinson says at the end of the day it’s about ratings. While Fox News still has more viewers combined than its competitors, ratings were down in 2011, while MSNBC and CNN were up. “It’s a smart move to get slightly less conservative and draw in some people in the middle and slightly to the left. If they just stuck to their staunch conservative guns, they wouldn’t go anywhere.” So we’re putting it to you:

25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 338 | MSNBC: 154 | CNN: 118 | HLN: 87

• Primetime: FNC: 536 | MSNBC: 278 | CNN: 178 | HLN: 121

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:	12a:
FNC	TheFive:	Baier:	Shep:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:
	481	486	442	641	523	439	313	248
MSNBC	Matthews:	Sharpton:	Matthews:	EdShow:	Maddow:	O’Donnell:	EdShow:	Maddow:
	113	164	203	271	329	233	162	175
CNN	Blitzer:	KingUSA:	Burnett:	Cooper:	Morgan:	Cooper:	Burnett:	Morgan:
	99	118	116	145	192	196	165	137
HLN	Special:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	DrDrew:	Grace:	Showbiz:	DrDrew:
	45	50	93	136	113	119	73	59

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ABC’s “20/20,” which devoted last night’s show to the cruise ship tragedy in Italy a week earlier, was Friday night’s #1 show with younger viewers. The special edition covered the breaking news of the Costa Concordia disaster with reporting from Chris Cuomo in Italy and Elizabeth Vargas and Deborah Roberts in New York. In head-to-head competition with Dateline NBC in the 10pm hour, “20/20″ was ahead in Total Viewers (+31%), A25-54 (+47%) and A18-49 (+29%). During its reporting on the Costa Concordia disaster this week — including last night — ABC News has mentioned its ties to the cruise ship industry. In one of her stories about cruise ship safety Vargas said, “Even our parent company, Disney, has cruise ships.”

Turner Broadcasting has promoted CNN ad sales chief Greg D’Alba to president, news and Turner digital ad sales.

In his new role D’Alba will continue to oversee ad sales for the CNN networks, and will add oversight of Turner’s entire digital portfolio. As part of the move, Katrina Cukaj has been promoted to EVP of CNN ad sales, responsible for managing sales for the CNN networks.

Turner also added MediaVest president Donna Speciale as president of Turner entertainment and animation ad sales.

More information, after the jump.

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• Christina Bellantoni is leaving CQ Roll Call to join the staff of PBS Newshour as Political Editor. Bellantoni will oversee all coverage both on air and online for the 2012 elections. Bellantoni spent the last year at CQ Roll Call as associate politics editor, appearing on cable news shows including MSNBC’s “Hardball,” FNC’s “On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren” and CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” Previously, Bellantoni was a reporter at Talking Points Memo and before that a White House correspondent for The Washington Times.