Fox News Channel first reported about the statement on its bottom-of-the-screen news zipper.
In screen news, the patriotic panel show I Love My Country, featuring Frank Skinner and Micky Flanagan, has been axed.
Correspondents were subject to "ground rules" that protected military security, but, unlike in World War II and Korea, officials did not screen news copy or vet photographs.
The man at the hot desk is, one operations manager said, the "single voice of truth" for information screens, news, phone apps and anyone following London transport.
There's as much stage as screen news this week, prominent among which is the revelation that Harry Hill is to bring us X Factor – The (spoof) Musical.
In this week's screen news, we find Sacha Baron Cohen squaring up to play Cecil Chao, the billionaire shipping tycoon who offered £40m to any man who would marry his lesbian daughter.
In screen news, Richard Herring is plotting a sitcom based on his childhood in Cheddar Gorge, in Somerset, while Matt Berry is free to dream up the second series of Toast of London, which Channel 4 has just commissioned.
As Mr. Maurer projected on a screen news clippings about the agency under the CKS Group, U SWeb/CKS and Whittman-Hart, "On the Sunny Side of the Street" played on the soundtrack.
But, watching the news at the beginning of the week about the death of Cilla Black, I felt that the BBC assumed rather too little knowledge, as the on-screen news wire on the BBC News Channel informed us throughout the evening that "singer Sir Paul McCartney said it was a privilege to know and love her".
In this week's small-screen news, Alan Carr abandons his planned sitcom about dog walkers, blaming himself for being too lackadaisical to make it happen; London Live, the Evening Standard's new London TV station, has bought up the hit YouTube sitcom All About the Mackenzies; and Peep Show's imminent demise has been confirmed by Channel 4 head of comedy Phil Clarke.
