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For a blogger, heaven is having an item linked at Drudge, where it is sure to generate tens if not hundreds of thousands of hits. The first time it happened to me was a NewsBusters item that came to be known as “Canoegate.” On the Today show, NBC’s Michelle Kosinski was dramatically reporting on flooding in New Jersey while seated in a canoe, when suddenly two men walked in front of her, revealing that the water was no more than ankle deep. Canoegate came to mind while watching NBC’s Miguel Almaguer report on wildfires in Santa Barbara, CA on Morning...

If you're Michelle Kosinki's agent, you surely have a verboten vocabulary list. Words you don't want your ward ever to say on air. Above all, of course, "canoe." But others too. Ones like "puddle," "slosh," and certainly . . . "row." But there was Michelle on this morning's "Today," reporting from London on Potter-mania. And you guessed it . . . NBC REPORTER MICHELLE KOSINSKI: There's been controversy and all kinds of news stories here in London about this book coming out. It even caused a bit of a row, as they say in Britain. Because the publisher's recommended price...

On Oct. 14, Michelle Kosinski, an intrepid new NBC News correspondent who made her name this summer chasing Natalee Holloway’s ghost through Aruba, found herself up a creek without a paddle in the middle of the Today show. Only, she had a paddle. What she didn’t have was a creek. In what would have been a beautifully choreographed segment, Ms. Kosinski was reporting live about flooding in Wayne, N.J., in a canoe that was floating down a submerged suburban thoroughfare. “Eight days of rain, and some neighborhoods don’t even look like neighborhoods anymore,” she told Today viewers at the top...