The Ticker: Squawk, Pinkerton, Dog Poop…

> Soledad O’Brien is co-hosting CNN’s American Morning from London today and tomorrow… (Update: And Miles O’Brien is in Florida…/

> Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez is guest hosting CNBC’s Squawk Box today from 8 to 10am, a press release notes (via ICN)

> Greta Van Susteren will appear on ‘The View’ Monday to talk about legal stories. She blogs about knowing Star Jones from the OJ trial…

> The problem with the new media is that they “will turn every discussion into a donnybrook, and every appointment into Armageddon,” Jim Pinkerton opines…

> Drudge thinks dog poop at Good Morning America is FLASH-worthy…

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