Today’s Obligatory Neal Shapiro Item

Phil Rosenthal’s Chicago Tribune lead is delicious: “NBC News President Neal Shapiro went on vacation on top. ‘The NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams,’ ‘Meet the Press’ and ‘Today’ are all No. 1.

Whether that will be the case when Shapiro returns next week is uncertain, which is why it appears likely this vacation is a prelude to a far longer one — the kind that begins with a statement from his bosses wishing him well in his future endeavors.”

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