Media Bubble: The Skull and Bones of Morning News
· Thanks to Jeff Zucker's freakout, a cabal of Harvard grads now rule the Big 3 morning news shows. (Fox & Friends suspected to be Ivy-free.) [USAT via Romenesko]
· A&E plans to follow up hits Growing up Gotti and Dog the Bounty Hunter with a slate of other reality TV knockoffs. One potential gem: Spying On Myself, in which participants go undercover to find out what their friends really think of them. [Mediaweek]
· Time Warner and Comcast agree to buy bankrupt Adelphia for $17.6 billion. We regret to inform you that your cable bill just jumped 15%. [Bloomberg]
· E&P reporter to newspaper execs: "Blogs? Forget them." Can we get an amen? [E&P]