Earlier in the week, NBC announced it would hire Chelsea Clinton as a correspondent for its “Making a Difference” series, a decision that clearly did not go over well for some. On CNN’s Reliable Sources today, Howard Kurtz‘s panel tore into the “Nepotism Broadcasting Company” for depriving someone without connections of such a job, with one panelist particularly noting it was offensive to “young people who played by the rules.”

Howard Kurtz spoke with Eric Deggans, a media critic from the St. Petersburg Times about the likely hiring of Al Sharpton to be MSNBC’s newest host of a nightly show. Kurtz and Deggans shared some worries with one another regarding whether or not Sharpton was the person most deserving of getting his own new show.

If the rampant but rather bland buzz is to be believed, CBS News will tap 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley as the next anchor of the CBS Evening News, replacing the soon-to-depart (and almost certainly daytime-bound) Katie Couric.

By all accounts, Pelley’s a great guy, well-liked at CBS News, and a fine choice to inherit the chair once owned by Walter Cronkite. Picking Pelley would reshuffle the evening news anchor deck, returning it to mostly white guys, with ABC’s Diane Sawyer the only exception. But what if CBS decided on a more diverse choice? Who’s out there? Is there anybody worth a look?

CBS anchor Katie Couric shared a photo with her Twitter followers overnight–a shot of Couric sitting in the airport in Munich, Germany and clearly wishing she had gotten to Egypt sooner. The networks went into scramble mode over the weekend, airlifting star anchors from New York to Cairo, but Couric was stuck on a shoot in Miami. As NBC’s Brian Williams fronted Nightly News from overseas Monday, St. Pete Times TV critic Eric Deggans observed “Just saw paparazzi pics of CBS’s Katie Couric chilling in Miami Sunday just before clicking to Brian Williams & Lester Holt in Cairo today.”

Rick Sanchez has released a statement today, apologizing for the comments he made last week that got him fired from CNN.

He also says he will continue promoting his book, and there are “no hard feelings” with CNN.

Wish I could say this idea was mine.

But I first heard about Mediaite columnist Danny Groner‘s list of 28 media leaders who died this decade from a friend who emailed an Internet listserv of black journalists, incredulous that the list did not include a single person of color.

Mediaite has been rightly called out for a big, glaring error: On our list of 28 media leaders we’ve lost this decade there was not a single person of color. Not a one. It’s an omission we are fixing even as I type this, but that’s not the point: the point is taking responsibility for [...]