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.â€? One of those projects, we hope, will involve teaming up with fellow network refugee Ted Koppel over at the Discovery Channelâ€â€a better place for quality TV journalism these days, anyway.
(Stuart Ramson / AP Photo)ÂÂ
Adapted from “People of the Year,� InTown Westchester, December 2007
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