People of the Year — 20. Stone Phillips
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Around the time Dateline NBC should have been firing the folks responsible for its “To Catch a Predator� segment (after a failed sting operation led a district attorney to shoot himself), the network was making a more Machiavellian move: dropping Phillips, the show’s co-anchor. The decision, last May, not to renew the Dobbs Ferry resident’s contract reportedly boiled down to cost-cutting. This after Phillips spent 15 years with the network, during which time he turned the newsmagazine into one of its prime-time staples. Talk about stone cold!
Prediction for 2008: Shortly after his June 2 departure from Dateline, Phillips told LoHud’s Suburbarazzi blog he would be taking time off, traveling, and “then taking on some independent projects.� One of those projects, we hope, will involve teaming up with fellow network refugee Ted Koppel over at the Discovery Channel—a better place for quality TV journalism these days, anyway.
(Stuart Ramson / AP Photo)Â
Adapted from “People of the Year,� InTown Westchester, December 2007
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