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Should Anna Coren Stay Or Should She Go?

11:20AM Clem Bastow | That title may seem like a rhetorical question (the answer being, one would expect, “Duh, go”), but it’s par for the course over at Seven headquarters at present. One minute Coren was all set to vamoose the Today Tonight chair and Concerned Face™ to jump ship to CNN, and now it looks like she’s not so certain the US is where it’s at anymore. Where does this leave proposed replacement, Samantha Armytage? That’s an issue that doesn’t seem to be rating very highly on Seven’s Care-Factor-O-Meter, as they’re too busy to-ing and fro-ing about Coren, if Seven’s current affairs honcho Peter Meakin’s stance is anything to go by: “I am scheduled to catch up with Anna tomorrow and everything will be laid on the table – we are going to start with a clean sheet,” Meakin told Confidential last night. More »