“MSNBC is now looking for [Rick] Kaplan‘s replacement, and it would look to be a hard job to fill. It’s the rare news executive who risks taking over from a man who was canned for only boosting ratings by 14 percent,” Media Life Magazine says. The story includes this notable sentence:

“And even then, there’s the fundamental question to be addressed, one often debated among media people, whether there is any real place or need for a third cable news network.”