He threw a big stone at NBC CEO Bob Wright last night over people picking on him…(via TVNewser)

But “Talking Points” is troubled by the behavior of NBC, which cheap shots FOX News on a regular basis and has been doing so for some time.

It is only a few people doing this, but NBC President Robert Wright allows it to happen. Wright knows exactly what’s going on, because he’s been made aware of it.

Now we understand that NBC has major problems. Its prime time programming is dead last. Its cable operations are ratings failures. And the network may lose Katie Couric to CBS, but that is no excuse for unprofessional behavior.

He then followed that up with a not so veiled threat…
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The January numbers are out. FNC won the month, besting CNN nearly 2:1 in Total Day and Primetime in P2+ and less than 2:1 in Total Day and Primetime P25-54. MSNBC was neck and neck with HLN but managed to eke out third place in P2+ Total Day and Primetime but split with HLN in the P25-54; beating it in Primetime but losing to it in Total Day. Both HLN and MSNBC posted year to year gains vs. Jan 2005. MSNBC was up 10% in daytime and 16% in Primetime (keep in mind there was a hole in the 9pm hour a year ago which dragged down MSNBC’s Primetime average as Deborah Norville’s show was being phased out so that needs to be factored in). HLN was up a whopping 43% in Primetime P2+ from a year ago as their new lineup wasn’t in place then. Both FNC and CNN registered losses vs a year ago. FNC was down 2% in Daytime and 7% in Primetime. CNN was down 9% in Daytime and 17% in Primetime.
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FTVLive scoops that FNC’s Juliet Huddy and Mike Jerrick are front runners to host a new FOX Broadcast Network Morning Show to maybe begin airing in late summer this year. Does this signal a possibility that Linda Vester will return to Dayside?

FNC’s Mike Tobin turns in a piece on the reaction to Hamas being propelled to power in the Palestinian territories…

Our cab driver was on a tirade last night. “The Palestinian people wanted to give Fatah a clap on the face, and now look what they’ve done,” he ranted. “They wanted to punish the old leadership, and who will get punished? We will.” The general consensus I get here in Gaza City is that everyone was surprised by the overwhelming Hamas victory, including Hamas. The vote was all heart and no logic. Now after days drunk on their own emotions — casting ballots, waving flags, and firing their guns in the air — Palestinians are waking up with a wicked political hangover, realizing who they are in bed with and thinking, “Wow, did we really do that?”

Mutlichannel News’ Steve Donahoe chronicles Suzanne Scott’s rise up the FNC News chain to Network Executive Producer… (via FTVLive)

Eighty-hour work weeks are the norm for Scott, who is expecting her first child in March. That doesn’t include the time she puts in on weekends.

“Basically it’s being on call 24/7, which is the nature of our business. It’s what we do,” she notes.

In 2003, Scott was named senior producer of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. The program quickly became one of the most popular shows on Fox News’s schedule and on basic cable.

Last January, Fox News promoted Scott to network executive producer. She now oversees the network’s primetime programming and its popular Fox & Friends morning show, along with developing the network’s weekend schedule

MSNBC has expanded the size of those three windows on the 12-4 block. Before they took up 1/3 of the screen. Now they practically take up half of the screen. In my opinion they were better the way they were. Though optimally it would be better if they weren’t there at all…

UPDATE: Here’s an example of the new SuperSized graphics…

FTVLive is scooping that Alexis Glick’s days may be numbered on Today and she will soon be removed from the show. If this happens it would be a big hit for Jeff Zucker who almost single handedly forced Glick upon NBC News. Does this mean she might wind up on MSNBC now? Or is she out of NBC News entirely?

dishes…

WHICH CNBC star is sleeping on the couch these days? The blustery buffoon’s wife didn’t take too kindly to him when she caught him in flagrante with a comely personal assistant . . .

TV Week’s Michelle Greppi writes about Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace addressing Fox Broadcast affiliates and the upcoming coverage of the SOTU…

Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News and Fox Television Stations, ordered up separate State of the Union coverage from 9 p.m. through the Democratic response for Fox Broadcasting. While Brit Hume anchors Fox News Channel’s coverage on cable, Shepard Smith and Mr. Wallace will do the anchoring and analyzing, respectively, for Fox Broadcasting viewers from 9 p.m. through the Democrats’ response.

The Fox affiliates were clearly impressed with Mr. Wallace’s speech-a reaction many of them phoned home as soon as they’d finished lunch.

Mr. Wallace is not kidding himself that they’ll race home and rearrange their Sunday-morning lineups.

He told The Insider: “We’ve upgraded the show. We’ve gotten a higher visibility. We get quoted routinely and as much as, if not more than, any of our competitors.”

WHAC notes that Anderson Cooper will be on Oprah Tuesday…

The Progressives behind the Chris Mathews Hardball Boycott have broadened their attack. Accoring to the site’s FAQ this is supposed to be about the Far Left getting its knickers in a twist because Mathews compared Bin Laden’s over the top rhetoric to Michael Moore’s over the top rhetoric. But apparently that doesn’t resonate in terms of affecting advertisers’ opinions as does the gay joke debacle that occurred on Imus last week. They’re also trying to play the race card over some innocuous comments Mathews made about Latinos being a natural constituency for Republicans. It’s almost like they’re throwing whatever they can at Mathews to see what will stick. The gay joke controversy in my opinion is far more damaging to Mathews in the mainstream than the “he said/she said” griping about Mathews comparing Bin Laden’s rhetoric with Moore’s. MSNBC already apologized for the gay joke incident on Imus, though Mathews wasn’t mentioned by name. But gay jokes are far removed from the ideological spat that was the driving force behind this boycott.

But it may be working. There’s a rumor that one Hardball advertiser may announce a pull out on Monday. Has the Far Left won a battle in its ideological dispute with Mathews? Or is the rumor full of hot air? Guess we’ll find out on Monday…

Newshounds, a site I have heretofore not linked to because the site, like Olbermannwatch, plays fast and loose with the facts, today notes something that I never thought I would see again; Tom Adkins on Bulls and Bears.

Tom Adkins is a contributor to FNC. Adkins has one other disctinction which isn’t too well known. Since last June, he’s been married to FNC’s Brenda Buttner. Buttner is the host of Bulls and Bears.

I’m a regular viewer of FNC’s Business Block so I had noticed that Adkins, though not a Bulls and Bears regular like Gary B. Smith for example, had not made an appearance on the show in quite a while. I didn’t think much of it until I read that he and Buttner were married last year. Then his abscence made sense.

So imagine my surprise to see Adkins turn up on Bulls and Bears today. Doesn’t FNC have a conflict of interest policy regarding its talent being married to people they may cover? NBC does. The most famous example is Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan. She can’t go anywhere near him or The Fed in terms of covering a story. Adkins shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near Buttner’s program.

All day MSNBC has been advertising an Ethical Edge episode on workplace ethics to air Sunday at 9pm ET.

Is there something in the water? First far left blogs launch a boycott on Chris Mathews and demand an apology. Now Johnny Dollar demands an apology for Keith Olbermann playing (and I’m paraphrasing here) fast and loose with the facts surrounding an O’Reilly attack on MSNBC and Rick Kaplan.

Let’s cut through the bull. Dollar is right in that Olbermann either misconstrued or confused the O’Reilly TPM because O’Reilly doesn’t talk about MSNBC Vermont coverage. However, this mistake is probably understandable given the way O’Reilly smoothly segued from a report about Cashman, and how FNC covered it and got attacked, to a ragfest on MSNBC and Rick Kaplan before again segueing back to Cashman. I myself had to re-read the transcript a couple of times to properly separate the two disparate events which O’Reilly joined together (deliberately in my opinion, otherwise the MSNBC rant is a non sequitur to the Cashman story.)

So in my opinion nobody comes out looking squeaky clean in this episode. O’Reilly tossed an MSNBC/Rick Kaplan slam into a completely unrelated story that didn’t even concern MSNBC. And Olbermann didn’t articulate properly what O’Reilly was doing.

CNBC announced today that it will mark the departure of Alan Greenspan from the Federal Reserve next week with a four part series, “The Future of the Fed”, that will air throughout the day from Squawk Box to Closing Bell…

The four-part series, airing the week of January 30 - February 3 across CNBC’s Business Day programming, will cover the Greenspan legacy and the challenges incoming Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke faces as well as an in-depth look at our new Fed Chair. “The Future of the Fed” will also delve into the iconic quality of Mr. Greenspan.

Liesman talked with Former Fed Vice-Chairman Alan Blinder, Former White House CEA Chair Glenn Hubbard, Fed Reserve Governor Donald Kohn, Former Treasury Sec. Lawrence Summers, Former Treasury Sec. Robert Rubin, and the author of “The Fed” Martin Mayer to get their thoughts on this important transition.

MSNBC announced its coverage plans for President Bush’s State Of The Union Address…

Chris Matthews will anchor MSNBC’s State of the Union coverage, which will begin with Hardball at 5:00 pm, ET. Following the President’s address to the nation, Matthews will anchor MSNBC’s post-game for commentary and analysis. He will be joined by “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams and NBC News political analyst Tim Russert, as well as MSNBC’s primetime anchors and contributors.

On the Internet, MSNBC.com will stream the address live on the site starting at 9:00 pm, ET. The full video, as well as the Democratic response and NBC analysis will be available to watch on-demand after it concludes. In addition, MSNBC.com will have a full transcript, highlights and post-speech analysis.

MSNBC will be devoting day long coverage Saturday to the 20th Anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster with special reports and analysis during Saturday’s MSNBC Live broadcast…

FNC will be premiering “War Stories: Eyewitness To History” this Sunday at 8 pm ET…

We embed with 3rd Battalion/ 7th Marines and the 2nd Brigade of the 28th Infantry Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard as they move among the power players in Al-Anbar province. You’ll go day-to-day, minute-by-minute as the Al-Anbar Governor, religious and tribal leaders and Coalition Forces try to hammer out agreements to ensure a successful election.

You’ll also go inside the daily security operations of US and Iraqi forces as the election nears – searching for terrorists, IEDs, and weapons caches. And you learn how important the elections are for the country — the composition of the new parliament, the new political role for women, and how Sunnis hope to once again become a political player in Iraq.

War Stories producer Greg Johnson has a Q&A about this episode…

Q: What was the biggest surprise you encountered during the December 15 election in Iraq?

Greg Johnson: The biggest surprise was how well the elections went in Ramadi. I think everyone expected them to go moderately well — that some people would come and vote — but many anticipated that there would be terrorist attacks against voting sites. Instead, the citizens came out in huge numbers, and overall, the day was very peaceful.

Following up on this, it looks like The San Francisco Chronicle’s Tim Goodman got part of his wish answered. So now he has new wishes…

So we got a little angry and righteous and bared our sensitive side on Wednesday and demanded that Nancy Grace, Greta Van Susteren and Rita Cosby come to San Francisco and cover heartbreaking urban crime right here rather than, say, Aruba. And damn if Grace didn’t take us up on it. Hmmm. Extrapolating from this heretofore untapped power of possibility, do you think it would work if we said, “Maury Povich and Connie Chung — slink away in the dead of night! Leave no note”? Or, even better, “Erica Hill — dinner with us at Boulevard!”

Pushing it?

CJR Daily’s Felix Gillette writes about this week’s news about UPN and The WB merging and how some FOX affiliates will lose out in the merger, a detail Gillette says was ignored on FNC, which is owned by the same parent company that owns the FOX affiliates…

For years, News Corp. distributed UPN content through a handful of its local stations in major markets across the country, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington. As virtually everyone except Fox was reporting, News Corp. had been excluded from the merger — a development that had left many of its local stations with gaping holes in their future programming.

Yesterday, Fox News once again reported on the nascent networks’ formation and once again failed to mention News Corp.’s resulting predicament.
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I touched on this a bit yesterday but CNN’s official release today expands on that…

In a special edition of The Situation Room, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Paula Zahn will anchor the network’s coverage of President George W. Bush’s fifth State of the Union address on Tuesday, Jan. 31, beginning at 7 p.m.

CNN correspondents Dana Bash, Candy Crowley, Ed Henry and John King, CNN senior analyst Jeff Greenfield, and contributors Paul Begala, William Bennett, Victoria Clarke, J.C. Watts and others will provide reports and analysis throughout the network’s prime-time coverage of the address. The network’s special coverage will also include the Democratic Party’s response by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.

Following the Democratic response at approximately 10:30 p.m., CNN’s Anderson Cooper takes over anchoring duties, broadcasting live from the balcony of the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. For this special edition of Anderson Cooper 360°, he will be joined by congressional members and analysts, including former presidential advisor David Gergen, Arianna Huffington, House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Andrew Sullivan.

CNN’s Larry King hosts a special edition of Larry King Live beginning at midnight with top political leaders and analysts.

NBC announced today its News Division’s plans for covering the Olympics. It’s rather lengthy. MSNBC’s on-air staff contribution relies heavily on Tucker Carlson, Chris Jansing, and Alison Stewart.

On NBC’s 24-hour cable news channel, MSNBC, Chris Jansing, Alison Stewart and Tucker Carlson, will anchor special Olympic coverage. U.S. Olympic gold medalists Sarah Hughes and Natalie Coughlin will join as on-air contributors. MSNBC will offer special live programming leading into and out of its Olympic coverage, which begins on Monday, February 13 and will include men’s and women’s hockey and curling. Jansing and Stewart will anchor the network’s pre-Olympic coverage from Torino, highlighting the athletes, their families, emerging stars and dramatic stories from the Games as well as the beautiful country where the Olympics are being held. Tucker Carlson will anchor MSNBC’s daily post-event coverage from MSNBC headquarters and will take a look at the day’s events with contributions from Jansing and Stewart. Hughes, a gold medalist in women’s figure skating and Coughlin, a five-time Olympic medalist in women’s swimming, will join MSNBC’s Olympic coverage for analysis and commentary.

The actual schedule for the Olympics for all NBC channels can be found here…

UPDATE: According to NBC’s Olympic Media Guide, Lester Holt will anchor a live weekday newscast on MSNBC from Torino. This will be Holt’s first anchoring duties on MSNBC in over six months.

And the Palm Beach Daily News’ Jan Sjostrom has him…(via Romenesko)

The anchorman whose boss once characterized him as ice compared with his successor’s fire was anything but chilly in the impassioned speech he delivered Tuesday at The Society of the Four Arts.

“Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news,” said Aaron Brown, whose four-year period as anchor of CNN’s NewsNight ended in November, when network executives gave his job to Anderson Cooper in a bid to push the show’s ratings closer to front-runner Fox News.

Brown said he tried to give viewers a balanced diet of light and serious news with NewsNight. “But I always knew when I got to the Brussels sprouts, I was on thin ice,” he said.

TV Guide’s Stephen Battaglio interviews FNC’s Brit Hume about the State Of The Union. But somehow the new World News Tonight tag team gets brought up…

TVGuide.com: Do you have anything special planned for your broadcast on Tuesday? Are we going to see something we haven’t seen before?

Hume: Yeah, we’re going to have Jessica Simpson and Matt Damon. No, we’re going to have the usual team. Our White House correspondent [Carl Cameron] at the White House; our congressional correspondent [Brian Wilson] will be on the hill. My analytical team from Special Report will be with me and augmented by others.

TVGuide.com: I know you have a job during the evening news hours, but I was wondering, as an alum of World News Tonight, if you’ve seen the new broadcast and what you think of it.

Hume: I’ve just seen glimpses of it, and it didn’t seem terribly compelling. But they’re just getting started, so it’s too early to tell. Experience in an anchor is something that viewers value. It gives them the sense that the person they are watching knows what’s really important and can be trusted to handle major news. I think the people ABC has tapped for its anchor team [Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff] are attractive people, and perhaps very talented people, but they seem by relative standards inexperienced.

TVGuide.com: Are you surprised they didn’t go with Charlie Gibson?

Hume: I would have gone with Charlie in a heartbeat.

The Houston Chronicle’s Claudia Feldman writes about the upcoming Enron trial and how the media is covering it…

Fox News Channel’s Dallas correspondent Kim McIntyre, along with FNC Houston producer Melissa Jacobs, will cover the trial and provide live updates from the courthouse in Houston. The cable news network’s Your World with Neil Cavuto also will provide extensive coverage on the trial. So far, CNN has committed to sending only its financial/business reporter, Chris Huntington, but additional resources will eventually be sent to Houston.

BBC radio reporter Lesley Curwen explains why millions will be paying attention:

“Enron made the ground shake. This was the granddaddy of corporate scandals — the one that made us doubt what we were being told as investors, the one that made us look at corporations in a whole new light.”
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Looks like some Far Left blogs are trying to start a boycott of MSNBC’s Chris Mathews. I’m sorry but this is nuts. Anyone who watched Mathews tear in to Michelle Malkin and the Swift Boat Veterans in 2004 knows Mathews is no Right Wingnut. Yeah, he did say something about Bin Laden and Michael Moore which the Far Left misconstrued in my opinion. But if that’s the worst thing that they can pin on the guy after all these years on the air, that’s pretty dang thin.

Back before ICN started and there were a few of us bandying about the idea of a blog, I said that I didn’t have the time to do one and furthermore if I ever did a blog it would be about politics and the media and be called “Idealogues Suck!” and attack both the Far Right and Far Left for their assenine poisoning of the national debate and their smothering of the numerically dominant, albeit relatively quiet, Middle. Well that never happened but if it had this is the sort of thing I would have gone off on. And for the record “Progressives”, Mathews did not compare Moore to Bin Laden. He compared Bin Laden to Moore. There’s a huge difference in that distinction (Moore being the reference point and not visa versa) which has apparently been lost on you to the point that you’ve transposed and twisted the comparison…

UPDATE: An Emailer pointed out an interesting twist that I hadn’t considered…

If anyone at Fox had said what Matthews did, do you have ANY doubt that he would end up as “worst person in the world”?

FNC’s Steve Harrigan flew back to Iraq. But not before he stopped to buy body armor. And not before he stopped to get checked out on new electronic equipment. Read Harrigan’s last two blog entries to get an idea of the difficulties reporters face when reporting from Iraq…

The neck guard was like a priest’s collar that velcro’d around your throat and extended out to guard the shoulders. Two new side protectors had ceramic plates. A lot of guys got shot in the side. Russ could have said I needed a new vest, that the attachments would not fit on, but he was honest. They sold reconstituted helmets at lower prices. They tried to help people who were going over. They were mostly ex-military.

In an expected move, William Bennett joins CNN as a contributor the network announced today…

William J. Bennett, radio talk show host and former U.S. secretary of education, will join CNN as a regular contributor to offer analysis and insight about politics and culture for various programs throughout the network, it was announced today by CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein. Bennett will be one of CNN’s political commentators as part of the network’s continuing effort to bring a broad range of perspectives to its viewers.

“Bill’s experiences as one of the nation’s most influential and provocative conservative thinkers will provide our viewers with a unique perspective on many political issues,” Klein said. “We look forward to his candid and expressive contribution to our broadcasts.”

UPDATE: Broadcasting & Cable’s John Eggerton adds that Bennett will make his first appearance on Tuesday when the President gives the State Of The Union address…

Bennett is scheduled to make his first appearance commenting on the State of the Union Address Jan. 31.

CNN will air an expanded Situation Room that night, co-hosted by Wolf Blitzer and Paula Zahn (whose 8 p.m. show will be preempted for the speech)

Newsweek’s Johnnie L. Roberts offers a near must-read appraisal of Jeff Zucker’s situation…

Zucker, too, has been busy crisscrossing his expanded turf. Recently, he flew to Miami (Telemundo, NBC’s Spanish-language network), and dropped in on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where digital media was the hot topic. He also held a town-hall meeting at CNBC headquarters. With Microsoft now out of MSNBC, Zucker told the audience he might change its name by spring, staffers said. About Rupert Murdoch’s plans for a CNBC rival, he told them he didn’t know if there’s room for two financial-news networks. “But if there isn’t room for two,” he added, “the one will be us.”

Marlon Manuel in the Atlanta Journal Constitution writes about the shutdown threat looming over BlackBerry users and talks to Miles O’Brien about his BlackBerry (over)use…

His wife, Sandy, said O’Brien would suffer “the DTs” if BlackBerry shut down. She hates that he’s a BlackBerry fiend, especially when he argues that using it leaves more time for family — a common argument for the technologically savvy who bring work home. At lunch, dinner or the opera, O’Brien’s BlackBerry is switched on.

Last fall, after O’Brien returned from a monthlong stint covering Hurricane Katrina, he and his 13-year-old son, Murrough, were talking in the kitchen. The anchor started scrolling his BlackBerry, and that upset Murrough.

“Daddy wasn’t listening to me,” he told Sandy.

“Why don’t you send him an e-mail,” she advised Murrough. “He’ll get it on his BlackBerry.”

The moment was poignant, one that O’Brien said he had tried to learn from.

Tim Goodman in the San Francisco Chronicle, makes an appeal to Van Susteren, Grace, and Cosby…

Nancy, Rita, Greta — we need you here, now, in S.F. We have a story of our own, and it’s heartbreaking.

Just the idea of saying these words makes me want to gargle on my own acid reflux. It goes against logic and decency and a litany of past columns, but here goes: It’s time for Nancy Grace and Rita Cosby and Greta Van Susteren — the Sirens of Sad Stories — to come to San Francisco.

Now.

Though it might require a jackhammer to pry them off of Natalee Holloway, the young white woman missing in Aruba, or George Smith, the young white man gone missing from his honeymoon cruise, or any number of suburban housewives who may torturously kill their own children — 24-hour news channels always remind us of death at every turn — there’s an extremely heartbreaking story right here in San Francisco.

Michael Starr in the NY Post writes about CNBC’s decision to renew Deutsch’s “The Big Idea”…

“This show has a unique voice and people are clicking with it,” adman-turned-TV-talker Donny Deutsch told The Post yesterday. “The show keeps growing, and we’re having our best month ever this month.”

“Deutsch,” which airs at 10 p.m., is averaging 148,000 viewers thus far this month — and has grown in total viewers every quarter since its debut last January.

“The thing I’m learning is that I’m putting on a new piece of theater every day, and I think that things change with every year — there’s a different level of gravitas,” Deutsch said.

It’s a slow news day so far so here are last weekend’s numbers. MSNBC’s live news expansion so far has not caused people to switch over from HLN even though what’s presented on MSNBC from 12-4 on weekends is far more dynamic and interesting than anything canned HLN can churn out during that time.

Saturday

Total Day P2+
FNC 848,000
CNN 465,000
HLN 239,000
MSNBC 228,000

Total Day P25-54
FNC 217,000
CNN 153,000
HLN 94,000
MSNBC 90,000
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CNN announced to day that Kelli Arena will host a one hour special on Crystal Meth for CNN’s Radio affiliates…

“The Rise of Crystal Meth” will air Thursday, Jan. 26, from 2-3 p.m. and will be produced by supervising producer Sherri Maksin. All times Eastern.

Arena, making her CNNRadio debut, will discuss efforts to combat the spread of crystal meth, what federal and state law enforcement agencies call America’s most dangerous drug. Her guests will include Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) who has introduced a bill to move cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, the ingredient used to cook meth, behind store counters in an effort to curb the meth epidemic.

Arena will also interview a former addict who was hooked on the drug for nearly a decade and the social worker responsible for taking the addict’s children away from her. Other scheduled guests include DEA agent Doug Coleman and Tennessee Judge Seth Norman, who established the country’s first live-in drug court, a rehabilitation facility where meth-addicted inmates reside instead of going to traditional prison.

Last night on Anderson Cooper 360, Susan Candiotti did a report on collision fires that have occurred with certain Ford models…

CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti interviewed families of victims of Ford fuel tank fires, a lawyer who prosecuted one of these cases and the foreman of a jury which ultimately ruled against Ford, awarding nearly $44 million. Ford has appealed the case, claiming the company did not get a fair trial.

According to CNN’s reporting, the Ford Motor Company designed and manufactured a shield that has reduced the incidence of fires when the vehicles are hit from behind. Despite a number of deaths, the shield has been installed only on police vehicles and only recently has been made available to limousine manufacturers. Ford says the $100 shield is not necessary for so-called “civilian” vehicles, since the vehicles are not used like police cars, which are often stopped adjacent to moving traffic. CNN’s reporting shows that while Ford says vehicle owners may go to a local dealer and pay to have a fuel tank shield kit installed, Ford has not alerted owners about the shield. The transcript follows below.
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