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Subject: Update.

Remember last spring when controversial talk-show host Jerry Springer was
 hired by Chicago's WMAQ-TV (the station whose studio he rents to tape his
 talk show) to serve as a commentator on their evening newscast, a move
 which so outraged veteran WMAQ anchors Carol Marin and Ron Magers that they
 both, within a matter of days of oneanother, left the station?

Well, Ms. Marin (who now can be seen on occassion on Bryant Gumble's
 struggling "Public Eye" series) has won a Peabody Award, not for her work
 at WMAQ before she left, nor for her work on "Public Eye", but for
 standing up for journalistic principle by quiting her job rather than
 be seen on the same news program as the King Of Sleazy Talk And Fist-
 Fights. 

Incidentally, Ron Magers is back in Chicago TV. He's now anchoring news
 at WLS-TV, where he was hired a few weeks back to replace another
 Windy City news legend, the recently-retired Floyd Kalber (Kalber also
 spent some time at NBC in between his Chicago local anchor stints).

Joseph Gallant

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