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  PRUDEN: 'Obama' is how you spell relief

  Conservatives are fractured, split and mad at each other, brawling like Democrats. There's only one man who can unify the movement. Fortunately for the Grumpy Old Party, Barack Obama is available, ready and eager.

• NBC adds producer Bettag to Williams' newsmagazine

  Brian Williams' NBC newsmagazine continues to add top talent as it approaches a Halloween night debut.

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  PRUDEN: Goodnight, Hurricane Irene. What a floozie

  Nobody cuts Barack Obama any slack, not even a hurricane. The president was ready to try anything to change the miserable trajectory of his luck. The polls were enough to ruin a week with the elites on Martha's Vineyard.

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  The List: Notable news broadcasters

  With the mighty Jim Lehrer retiring, let's look at some of the most famous folks who have delivered the news.

• Scott Pelley taking over for Couric as CBS anchor

  CBS' new pick to anchor the evening news, Scott Pelley, said Tuesday that he'll bring his "60 Minutes" sensibility to the job and will do his most important work behind the scenes to try to pull the program out of its yearslong ratings slump.

• What Katie Couric's likely successor will bring

  The appointment five years ago of Katie Couric as evening news anchor represented a bold step, certainly something new for CBS News. Her likely successor, Scott Pelley, hearkens back to a day when CBS was the gold standard in television news.

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  Can a Couric successor lift ratings?

  Katie Couric's successor as "CBS Evening News" anchor faces an extraordinarily difficult job in lifting the network out of the ratings cellar.

• Giffords story: A lesson in leaping to conclusions

  The rapidly replicated false report that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had died after being shot in the head provided media outlets another lesson this weekend in the danger of leaping to conclusions.

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  Inside the Beltway

  A big, juicy debate with f-bombs and finger-pointing? Uh, no. The five hopefuls who gathered Monday to make their case for Republican National Committee chairmanship at the National Press Club were perfectly on message, delivering flawlessly timed talking points in dulcet tones. Their handlers must have been delighted.

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  Inside the Beltway

  "Why is there no record of Michael Savage being banned in the WikiLeaks cables?" asks Mr. Savage himself, who has waged a 19-month battle to have his name scrubbed from a list of "undesirables" banned from Britain, compiled by then-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.

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  After long career, Dan Rather tries 'Summing Up'

  Dan Rather is in the mood for "Summing Up."

• Inside the Beltway

  There is talk that his hair is speckled with worrisome gray and that the daily tide of public opinion polls is a welter of White House negativity. Though the hope-and-change era appears to have waned in the U.S., it's still bright elsewhere, apparently.

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  Portland's dark world of child sex trafficking

  Portland, Ore., is a young, green, hip city. It's also a national hub for child sex trafficking.

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  TYRRELL: Modified left-wing hangout

  The other day in the Wall Street Journal, my friend Fred Barnes deposited a few thoughts on journalism provoked by the discovery of a mother lode of left-wing bigotry, screeds and semiliterate gibbering. He hastened to tell his readers that there was no conspiracy behind the journalists' "tilt" to the left, but rather, "The media disproportionately attracts people from the liberal arts background who tend, quite innocently, to be politically liberal." Then he filed a caveat, noting that "hundreds of journalists have gotten together, on an online listserv called JournoList, to promote liberalism and liberal politicians at the expense of traditional journalism."

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