We won't prematurely call ousted CNN daytime anchor Daryn Kagan's online venture a success – because we just hate eating our words – but let's call her PR machine a success. With the help of Fox News publicity veteran Paul Schur, Daryn has been racking up the headlines. She's landed on Michael Starr's radar for boosting book sales of "donated a kidney to her husband" author Joan Saltzman (from 100,000 to 646 on Amazon.com) to scoring a respectable heap of traffic in her first week online. And that's after mentions from U.S. News & World Reports' Paul Bedard, the Daily News' Richard Huff, UPI syndication, and, of course, items right here on Jossip.

Clearly, MSNBC refugee Ashleigh Banfield hired the wrong PR guru to keep her name alive.