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...worry. That peculiar odor you have been noticing in the morning is not burning toast. It is the smell of panic -- plump and juicy egos sizzling on a very hot griddle -- at NBC's Today show. Since the end of December, when Deborah Norville replaced Jane Pauley as co-host, ratings have not merely dropped; they have gone into free fall, a dizzying decline of nearly 25% that translates into approximately 920,000 lost households. The No. 1 morning program only five months ago, Today is now a distant No. 2, far behind ABC's Good Morning America...
...whose self-satisfied manner many find as off-putting as Norville's plastic perfection, will remain. So will Norville, 31, who has been officially exonerated for the ratings calamity. "She's not on the way out," insists Today's executive producer, Tom Capra. "The ratings have slid because Jane left the show, not because of Deborah. Deborah's a solid journalist, and I believe the audience will like her as they are exposed to her." Garagiola, Capra maintains, will "bring out what is really going on with her." So it seems that one host has been hired to persuade viewers...
...forget Taylor Dayne, who looks like Kim Basinger and has all the funk of Batman's butler Alfred. Not to mention -- well, perhaps just mention -- Jane Child, Lisa Stansfield and Alannah Myles, and even Basia, who brings an East European flavor to all this booty shaking...
...There have been a lot of false alarms in the past so people were less quick to respond to the fire alarm," said Jane H. Nielsen, a second year B-School student...
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