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It appears CNN has hit another speed bump on its road to reinvention. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the cable network is quietly considering replacing conservative Kathleen Parker as co-host on the show currently titled Parker Spitzer. The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, along with her co-host, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, has failed to drum up the sort of buzz the news operation is after, much less garner ratings to make it competitive with rivals Fox News and MSNBC. (A CNN spokesperson told Forbes it “does not comment on speculation.”)

During a segment on WikiLeaks, Fox News pundits agree that America can't legally arrest Julian Assange. So the US should just assassinate him instead.

Iconic TV interviewer Larry King will step aside from hosting his prime-time CNN show this fall, he said. King said he will still be hosting specials on CNN.

Fox News' Bret Baier interrupted President Obama so many times during Wednesday's interview that Newsweek described the enounter as a "interrupt-a-thon."

Baier acknowledged his repeated interjections at the end of the interview, by interrupting the president once more to apologize. Baier told Obama "I apologize for interrupting you, sir.

Switching letters. Kate Snow has a date with Dateline. The ABC News and Good Morning America Weekend co-anchor is leaving ABC for a job with NBC News.

CBS News is cutting jobs among at its news-gathering bureaus and TV shows, as it grapples with declining revenue.

Sarah Palin will become a contributor to Fox News.

John King is replacing Lou Dobbs on CNN. Jon Klein, CNN president, said Thursday that veteran reporter King will move into the 7 p.m. EST slot that's been vacated by Lou Dobbs. King will host a show about politics beginning early next year.

Lou Dobbs, the CNN anchor whose views on immigration made him a lightning rod, is leaving the network.

Mr. Hewitt changed the course of broadcast news by creating the television magazine program for CBS.