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The Ticker: MS/NBC, Klein, Straka…

> T-minus 5: “There’s a promo running on ABC that gives you a preview of the new look for World News Tonight (graphics, etc.),” an e-mailer notes…

> A seemingly random item in the NY Post: “NBC hasn’t decided if it will change the name of MSNBC, now that it’s acquired a majority stake in the cable network from Microsoft…”

> Is the world as bad as it seems? “Because news now travels the world at the pace of a high-speed Internet line, it just seems like these are the end of days,” USAT’s Marco R. della Cava notes. And there’s no escaping it: “Expect more from us, not less,” CNN’s Jon Klein says…

> FNC’s Mike Straka hopes that 2006 is a “No Spin Year…”

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