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>> you said it, tina brown. >> i don't want to see any more of following him around. >> fair enough. let's move right along to a heart-warming story. i have a heart-warming story about a son and his mother. spring training baseball. denard got his mom front row seats. watch what happens. he slaps a line drive in her grille. >> what? >> fouls hit. hits his mother with a line drive. she has front row seats. just crushes one right in her direction. >> oh, no. >> good news is, he was over there for a couple minutes, making sure his mother was okay. the medical technicians came on the scene. she's going to be fine. she wasn't hit directly, apparently. although she would have been hit directly. >> got hit in the shoulder. >> that's right. >> that's too bad. >> those are mike barnicle seats when you're in the front row, next to the dugout. glad denard span's mother is okay. >>> wild scene in salt lake city. the american women's soccer team playing mexico. >> in the snow? >> in a snowstorm in salt lake city. amy wombach

tina brown of "the daily beast" touched off this latest frenzy. >> i've been told that space is beinged in mysteriously in the royal calendar for what, nobody knows, in june. >> reporter: hinting that prince william is about to pop the question. >> needless to say, that's been totally denied by everybody here. but of course they will deny this until the minute before they announce it. >> reporter: in fact, british book keyes recently shortened the odds on a royal wedding this year. it's now almost even money william will beat his younger brother to the altar. the prince is now 27. he said years ago he would probably wait until he's 28. and he's been dating kate middleton on and off for seven years. >> here in london, nobody is getting very fussed about it. people just want to let the kid get on with it. >> reporter: earlier this year, a wounded iraqi war vet bluntly asked the prince for an invitation. >> well, i'm trying to get an invitation for your wedding. >> you'll have to wait awhile yet. >> reporter: the prince was good humored about it. but clearly he's feeling some pressure, b

>> tina's wikipedia entry and scott brown's. >> oh, my gosh!i think what's fascinating is that palin has decided that she wants to speak directly to her market. she doesn't need the media filter. in fact, one of her advisers told me that through facebook and her tv show and fox, she doesn't need reporters like me. there's no reason she would sit down to do an interview when she can get paid -- >> oh, i think you're useful. i think all of us are useful because we can then be the enemy by which she grows her platform. >> exactly. >> but a great celebrity like her -- >> we are, though, the mainstream media is sarah palin's prop, it is not the vehicle. >> right. yes. >> she does not need anybody but her fans right now. >> well, the thing about her is she has the quality i think that great stars have, which is an element of danger. you never quite know where sarah palin's going to go. you really don't. you don't know which box she's going to come out of. there's a sense of breakneck speed with her racing around with this bizarre entourage. it feels

and i for a while a regular contributor of the daily beast which is started by tina brown which is now in a state of flux. it's a lot of fun book loving and you better love it because as everybody made clear there's not a lot of money in it. the at least i've ever been paid -- you're right. you can write as many reviews as you want for free. the least i've been paid $50. and i think the most i was paid was $500. and that was by the "new york times" and nobody else pays that much. typical pay for a book review which is usually somewhere 600 to 1,000 words is around $150 to $200. so depending how long it takes to you read a book and write a publishable review, you can figure out how much you could make if you're lucky to get the work. which is the really depressing part of it as katherine has mentioned. in the seven years i've been writing for newspapers, which isn't really that long -- the contraction in the industry has been significant. numerous newspapers have cut their sections completely. everybody else has downsized. i don't think anybody has not downsized during that period of ti

journalist tina brown of "the daily beast" touched off this latest frenzy. >> i've been told that space is being cleared in the royal calendar for, what? nobody quite knows. in june. >> reporter: hinting prince william is about to pop the question. >> needless to say that has been totally denied by everybody here at buckingham palace. but of course they will deny this until the minute before they announce it. >> reporter: in fact, british bookies recently shortened the odds on a royal wedding this year. it's now almost even money william will beat his younger brother to the altar. the prince is now 27. he said years ago he'd probably wait until he's 28. and he's been dating kate middleton on and off for seven years. >> here in london, nobody's getting very fussed about it, actually. people want to let the kid get on with it. >> reporter: earlier this year a wounded iraqi war vet bluntly asked the prince for an invitation. >> i'd like an invite to the wedding. >> no, no. well, yes. >> reporter: the prince was good-humored about it. clearly the world's most eligible bachelor is feeling so

during an appearance, editor tina brown said a royal wedding couldn't come at a better time. >> britain that's very similar now between the mood of diana's wedding and the moot of a possible kate and william wedding is that mood in england. it's sour, sour, sour right now. coming out of 13 years of a labor government, a terrible recessi recession, the post banking -- you know, they've had a meltdown, too. tax is high. unemployment is high. and there's a really bad temper in the country. and just as with diana and charles, that wedding lifted in and out of a bad recession. >> hln hasn't been able to confirm the story, buckingham palace, though, said no skment. comment. martina navratilova says she has breast cancer. she's going to start six weeks of radiation next month. she waited four years between mammograms, and if she had let it slide one more year, it could have been much more serious. well, a new battle is reportedly shaping up between jon and kate gosselin. just a short while ago, john filed court papers over custody of their eight kids. "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer is in new