http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/shephard smith http://gawker.com/tag/shephard smith Because deciding who leads America is a little too boring to take straight or because football is a little too repetitive to take uncut, Fox News has decided to meld its football and political coverage into one large undifferentiated goulash. On February 3rd, FOX anchor (top/vers, we think) Shepard Smith, who looks more and more like a young Frank Sinatra, will kick-off a three-hour broadcast from Arizona all about the Superbowl and how super it is whilst FOX News anchor Bill Hemmer chimes in from New York about Super Tuesday which is February 5th. Roger Ailes is clearly onto something here. We can't wait for their coverage of the Russian presidential elections melded with the Canadian men's curling championship in early March! [NYO] ]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:48:47 EST Joshua Stein http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5002329&view=rss&microfeed=true As we mentioned earlier, Fox News anchor Shephard Smith is raking it in, to the tune of $7 million per year in a recently-inked deal with his network. According to today's story from New York Times media reporter Bill Carter, "Mr. Smith would be making more than anyone at CNN—if reports of $5 million for Anderson Cooper and $6 million for Lou Dobbs are accurate." Did Carter forget that in 2002, the Timesran a piece in 2002 about CNN talkshow host Larry King's potential $14 million salary? Perhaps. Harder to believe is that he forgot the piece the Times did way back in 1998 about King's earnings, which the paper reported at $7 million. He wrote it himself!

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