HLN’s Brooke Anderson is leaving the network’s Showbiz Tonight to take Lara Spencer‘s spot on The Insider.

The move comes as ABC’s Good Morning America has hired away Spencer as part of its push to close the gap on longtime number one network morning show TODAY.

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Recently, former SNL cast member and Tea Party anthem singer Victoria Jackson was appalled that this week’s episode of Glee featured two gay characters locking lips. She took to the Internet, writing a blistering post on WorldNetDaily.com in which she called the kiss “sickening.” The folks at HLN read between the lines of that post and were able to translate it as “Someone please put me in front of television cameras right now!”

Yesterday, Lane Bryant, the clothing store chain that caters to plus-sized women, slammed ABC and Fox for refusing to air a commercial for their new lingerie line. Since the commercial had nothing in it that a thousand Victoria’s Secret ads before it didn’t, the company accused the networks of discriminating against larger women. It’s a fairly interesting story that speaks to the shallow nature of our society and Christi Paul and Brooke Anderson (two women who have never shopped at a Lane Bryant) tackled it earlier this afternoon on CNN. Unfortunately, whoever on the staff pulled the commercial from YouTube, accidentally pulled a parody version instead. And the parody had a fairly mean joke inside it that must have gotten past the eyes at CNN.

While doing image search after image search to satisfy the Power Grid’s voracious appetite for photos, we here at Mediaite came upon a rather titillating discovery: a surprising number of media professionals seem to have an odd connection to another seedy profession: pornography!