When the "Today" co-host Matt Lauer — unquestionably the most important on-the-air presence in morning television — said last Friday that he had renewed his contract, a "GMA" staff member was sent over to the "Today" show studio with a gift: a bucket of golf balls.
In explaining the recent "GMA" ratings gains, James Goldston, who held Mr. Cibrowski's job until February, when his job at ABC News was expanded, credited the chemistry of the show's ensemble.
And with strong support in some congressional quarters for compulsory labelling, it is hard to see the GMA getting its own way here.
Today, with the wind in its sails, the GMA is apparently also pushing for a federal solution: in a statement issued yesterday it said the Food and Drug Administration FDAA) should set "national standards for the safety and labeling of products made with GMO ingredients".That does not appear to preclude some sort of national labelling rule.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and Monsanto must therefore fancy their chances in Oregon, where an effort is under way to place a GM-labelling measure on the ballot next year (assuming its backers do not lose heart from the Washington defeat).
But according to documents filed in Washington earlier this year and seen by the New York Times, the GMA wants the precise opposite; its board, according to the documents "has directed GMA staff to seek federal pre-emption with no mandatory label" (ie, a ban on compulsory labelling).
In the first segment of the programme, she emerged from her mammogram telling Roberts and her GMA colleagues that it hurt much less than she thought it would.
On the television show GMA News, the presenter can be heard saying "Oh no!" when the fancy fascinator flies away.
ABC's Amy Robach confirmed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer on Monday, a month after undergoing an on-air mammogram for Good Morning America (GMA).
Amy admitted she had been reluctant to have the public mammogram but went ahead after GMA anchor Robin Roberts told her that if the broadcast saved just one life, it would be worth it.
"Good Morning, I'm Joan Lunden" GMA may go on the air at 7 00 a.m., but our workday starts some three hours earlier, at 4 00 a.m., to be exact.
