The Ticker: NewsNight…Harrigan…Glick

> The executive producer of NewsNight has been let go, an anonymous tipster says…

> Keith Olbermann blogs: “I never knew that freedom of speech came with an on/off switch.”

> FNC’s Steve Harrigan is in the Congo…

> Following up on this: “What happened to the two weeks that Alexis Glick was supposed to do the Early Today show?,” an e-mailer asks. “I see Contessa Brewer is back again. Does this mean Zucker is going to plan “B” now that Glick crashed and burned?” And what is Plan B?

> For the record: “Blood found on the floor of a Detroit house where Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa allegedly was killed 30 years ago does not match Hoffa’s…Investigators and prosecutors were skeptical of the lead from the beginning but were obligated to pursue it after Fox News said that its investigation had turned up blood on the floor.”

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