When Does Shep Sleep?

The network news anchors are all back home from the Middle East, but the cable folks are still there, Tim Cuprisin notes.. FNC’s Shepard Smith is the top-rated anchor in the war zone.

“These days, his schedule runs from ’2 p.m. local time through 7 a.m. local time, and we sleep after that.’ And he noted that he’s more plugged in than he’s ever been on such a story. ‘This is the first conflict that I’ve been involved with, or the first major story, including Katrina, where our BlackBerry devices work. So we’re able to get real-time both wires and internal reporting.’” Here’s the full story…

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