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CBS News President Susan Zirinsky has addressed the fallout from Gayle King’s interview about Kobe Bryant, calling threats against the CBS This Morning co-anchor “reprehensible.” “We fully support Gayle King and her integrity as a journalist,” Zirinsky told the Associated Press Saturday. “We find the threats against her or any journalist doing their job reprehensible.” Zirinsky’s comments came one day after Oprah Winfrey, revealed in an interview that King is “not doing well.” “She now has death threats and has to now travel with security,” Winfrey told Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on the Today show. [cut] Among the...

NEW YORK Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of CBS’ "48 Hours Mystery, has apologized for airing an altered image of the front page of the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune in an episode about a local murder trial that aired Saturday. The paper’s managing editor, Jim Robertson, had complained to CBS in an e-mail. Zirinsky said she didn’t know the image of the front page covering Ryan Ferguson’s sentencing had been drastically manipulated. Ferguson had been convicted last October of killing the newpaper’s sports editor, Kent Heitholt, whose body was found in the Tribune’s parking lot in November 2001. "It was an...