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What will the morning bring?

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| January 22, 2007 | | COPYRIGHT 2009 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Tom Shales

We don't care what something is; we care what it will become. And then when it becomes something else, we want to know what it will become next. The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on; so does television morph and having morphed, morphs more.

Morning television especially is in a pretty perpetual state of amorphous morphing. For decades it's been a bountiful font of free-flowing gossip-dueling divas (of both sexes), feuds and jealousies, egos and clashes and of course Machiavellian maneuvers. Now NBC has brought the subject back to …

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