If Katie Couric is preparing to square off against Diane Sawyer over Sawyer’s anchor spot my money is on Sawyer.

Ambitious news presenter Katie Couric is said to be eyeing up Diane Sawyer’s hot seat on ABC World News.

The 54-year-old newswoman serves as a special correspondent for the network – but according to insiders is keen to fill in for anchor Sawyer, 65, when she is away.

However, this news has apparently not gone down well with veteran Diane – who wants her rival to stay well away from her chair.

A source told the National Enquirer: ‘[Couric's] time as anchor on CBS wasn’t very successful, but she’d like to show she can still do it,’ but added Sawyer would be ‘very unhappy if they use Katie as her substitute when she’s off.’

I bet; Sawyer doesn’t strike me as a Barbie font fan.

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The National Enquirer has struck again in the Al Gore Sex Attack Scandal.

Ahead of the print edition of the Enquirer hitting big city newsstands tomorrow morning, the Enquirer’s website has just released it’s latest Al Gore Sex Attack bombshell: the tabloid has the evidence to prove the former VP is a “pervert and sexual predator.”

AL GORE SEX SCANDAL ACCUSER reveals shocking NEW EVIDENCE  — ONLY to the NATIONAL ENQUIRER in a bombshell world exclusive interview!

“AL GORE is a pervert and sexual predator,” declares MOLLY HAGERTY, 54, the massage therapist who told Portland, Ore. police that the ex-VICE President sexually assaulted her.

“He’s not what people think he is – he’s a sick man!”

The image on the Enquirer’s latest cover says that the tabloid has “DNA testing, video evidence and key witnesses” to back up the claim from the Portland masseuse who filed a police report about he incident in 2007.

Things have been heating up for Al Gore this past week–and it has nothing to do with man-made climate change.

Tomorrow marks Week Two in the Al Gore Sex Scandal, as presented by the National Enquirer.  With the Enquirer publishing five stories this past week on the story it headlined as the “Al Gore Sex Attack,” one suspects that the tabloid isn’t quite finished yet with the “Father of the Internet.” (more…)

Why did Game Change authors, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann keep quiet on one of the 2008 campaign’s juiciest stories–only to spill the beans eighteen months later?

More importantly, why did they tell their readers about the John Edwards scandal only after it became personally profitable to do so?

Political reporters Halperin and Heilemann signed their book deal in June 2008, reportedly for a “mid- to high- six-figure sum.”co-authors of the ubiquitous political tell-all, Game Change.  Sprinkled amongst this cornucopia of unsourced gossip, rumor, whispers and innuendo are nuggets of hard news, particularly about former 2008 Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards.

Of particular interest was the following passage, from the excerpt published by Heilemann’s employer, New York :

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