PBS NewsHour gathered together political editor David Chalian and senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff to offer up a little sneak peek of what’s to come in tonight’s CNN / Tea Party Express GOP Debatapalooza.

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?

After Jeff Zucker‘s trip to the Congressional woodshed at a House Judicial Affairs Committee meeting this week over lack of racial diversity at NBC, is Meet the Press about to take another stab at diversifying its panels and newsmakers?

Cross Ted Koppel off the list of potential anchors of ABC’s Sunday morning show This Week.

Broadcasting & Cable‘s Marisa Guthrie reports that, despite previous reports, talks have ended between ABC and the former Nightline anchor without an offer.

It’s very easy to dismiss today’s journalists as high maintenance and pampered celebrity pundits, unworthy descendants of their beloved and revered Walter Cronkite. And you’d be right in most enough cases. You can blame it on their network bosses and corporate owners, who have reduced much of the “news” to easily digestible distraction nuggets for [...]

When Mets general manager Omar Minaya called a press conference yesterday to announce the firing of Tony Bernazard, the team’s VP for player development, New York Daily News reporter Adam Rubin was bizarrely dragged into the story when Minaya alleged that “for the past couple of years,” Rubin had been “lobby[ing] for a player development position,” and might have wanted Bernazard out of the picture so he could get the job himself.