HuffPost's Rachel Sklar puts into perspective, several days of sad news in local and network TV newsrooms. Writes Sklar, "occasionally, the (ratings) hoopla can get a little crazy considering just how small a slice of America cares about who got what percentage of which demo when... a little healthy competition and upward striving is ideally what brings out a person's best work."

< A photo taken in "the early days of the Iraq war" in Baghdad. Brian Williams, Eric Wishnie and Gen. Wayne Downing, and a dog the NBC News team 'adopted'.