Good On Ya, Brother Costas

Looks like some broadcast personalities have some scruples; via MSNBC

While some cable TV hosts are making their living off the Natalee Holloway case this summer, Bob Costas is having none of it. Costas, hired by CNN as an occasional fill-in on “Larry King Live,” refused to anchor Thursday’s show because it was primarily about the Alabama teenager who went missing in Aruba. Chris Pixley filled in at the last minute. “I didn’t think the subject matter of Thursday’s show was the kind of broadcast I should be doing,” Costas said in a statement. “I suggested some alternatives but the producers preferred the topics they had chosen. I was fine with that, and respectfully declined to participate.”

While some don't:

The Holloway case has been a big attraction on cable news networks during a slow news period, with Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren getting record ratings as she’s paid almost nonstop attention to it.

Which reminds me of this Daily Show segment, hosted at Crooks and Liars, where Ed Helms is "reporting from Crawford" about the President's vacation being disturbed by Cindy Sheehan:

Helms: It reminds me of this woman, who tragically lost her daughter in Aruba, and has been down there ever since trying to find out what happened.
Stewart: Ed, that was Greta Van Susteren, she's a newscaster. She's not the girl in Aruba's mother.
Helms: No. No, no, no. Only a blood relative would pursue a case with that kind of single-minded obsession.