Oh Anderson….did you really need to say that? (via FTVLive)

FTVLive scoops with news that Jeff Zucker, Steve Capus, and Rick Kaplan will have a Town Hall style meeting tomorrow at 1 pm EST.

Is this really a routine NBC instigated meeting or is it a reaction to all the (sometimes self-inflicted) turmoil in Sacaucus that has leaked out to the blogs the past couple of months? There has been a lot of internal pressure aimed at Kaplan from the rank and file from what I’ve heard. Will the presence of Zucker and Capus stiffle criticism and discussion that might have occurred if it was just Kaplan holding the Town Hall? Is this meeting the warm up to layoffs and/or restructuring in Secaucus? There are a lot of questions that are raised from this announcement.

CNBC announced today that Jose Canseco and his attorney will be on tonight’s Big Idea. If you read the press release, you’d think Deutsch was getting the Pentagon Papers or something equivelant…like Canseco had a huge bombshell to drop…

Jose Conseco Implicates MLB in Evidence Tampering on CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch”

Jose Conseco and his attorney Robert Saunooke will appear on tonight’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch” (CNBC, 10 pm ET) to promote Conseco’s new book and discuss his recent allegations that Major League Baseball’s steroid policy is racist.

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GretaWire today notes a first….

As an aside, usually we get pitches from members of Congress to do segments on legislation they are pushing. On Wednesday — a first — I received a pitch from a member of Congress to do a segment on a murder in his jurisdiction. He wants to be certain that justice prevails and media coverage can often guarantee a case or investigation does not get swept under the carpet. It shows how attentive he is to his constituency. We are looking into his suggestion.

Romenesko’s letters page features a letter from a Ron Fineman that claims that The O’Reilly Factor altered a letter he wrote in to the show and used the altered version to discredit the LA Times…

“The O’Reilly Factor” show changed the wording of a viewer e-mail this week, which then allowed O’Reilly to unfairly discredit the LA Times. I know this is correct because I am that viewer. The subject was the oil output in Iraq, which O’Reilly had declared on Monday to be at “100 percent.” Here is the email as it was read by Bill.

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The Philadelphia Enquirer’s Gail Shister writes about Geraldo Rivera’s new Fox Broadcast Network TV Show. Since it’s not exactly cable news related I’m not going to say much about that. However Rivera does have some nice things to say about FNC’s Shepard Smith and, somewhat surprisingly, CNN’s Anderson Cooper (in a backhanded way though)…

Though Fox denies it, Rivera says the new At Large is the first step in the network’s launch of a national evening newscast. And FNC’s Shepard Smith is his anchor of choice.

“He’s incisive, compassionate, young, good-looking and apolitical, except in human terms. He’s like me in the early Roone Arledge era [at ABC] in the late ’70s - someone people can relate to, who won’t sell them a bill of goods.

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