So who's the CNN human resources head that Early Show No. 2 Michael Rosen is marrying? She's Jane Caplan, and her reputation certainly precedes her.

We're told that on more than one occasion, Caplan allegedly has interviewed CBS staffers looking for a new gig at CNN, and then passed that information back the tiffany network, where Rosen would have a chance to either a) fire the CBS staffer; b) trash the staffer's reputation at CNN, thus killing any chance they could be hired away. One horror story retold to us went down exactly like Scenario B. But interestingly, another source says Caplan's information trading scored them promotions, having been able to leverage the wrongdoings into better jobs. (Neither Caplan nor Rosen responded to requests for comment.)

But don't think the Rosen-Caplan duo is the only information funnel that has CBS types worried.

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There are so many new faces at The Early Show that everyone should be wearing name tags, suggests one insider who's been witness to the super-negativity at the CBS morning program. So many new faces, and not one to recognize.

But at least the A.M. troops have a new leader: Zev Shalev was named interim executive producer, as Jossip was the first to tell you. Now word arrives that CBS brass want to install him as the permanent head, if only to save face amidst a crumbling operation. And while Shalev has been described to us as a decent guy and a robust resume, he's also said to be clueless about how to run things.

As we also told you, in naming Shalev to the EP slot, The Early Show also lost Shelley Ross hire and "mean girl" Laurye Blackford, who quit in protest. Her last day was Thursday. Her slot could be filled by Today's Betsy Alexander, who was brought in to help out with sweeps week, but is still around and is expected to take reigns of Early's second hour.

Meanwhile, those who are still on staff have another reason to groan:

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With Rick Kaplan gone from The Early Show, and Zev Shalev stepping in, surely everything at the CBS morning show is about to be peaches and cream, right?

You're silly.

Early this week, we told you senior producer Laurye Blackford, a Shelley Ross "mean girl" hire, announced she was quitting. Now we're told she's staying on for a little, but that she'd like be gone in the next two weeks. Yesterday, she finally confirmed to producer colleagues that the rumors she was leaving are true.

But – and there's always a but – Barbara Fedida, CBS's talent/development VP, didn't accept her terms. Those two are supposed to meet by the end of the week to agree on a final date.

As for David Shenfeld, the senior producer who just stopped showing up for work? He hasn't been in the office for three weeks, we're told, and staffers haven't been told whether he is or isn't returning. Perhaps they might be tipped off by the fact that somebody else has already moved into his office, and swapped nameplates on the door?

And then there's this beautiful tidbit of nepotism:

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The Early Show's drama didn't end with Shelley Ross' ouster. Or with last week's exits.

Yesterday, security escorted five staffers and one senior producer out of the building, we're told, in a housecleaning orchestrated by interim exec producer Rick Kaplan and CBS VP of talent/development Barbara Fedida. So the story goes, the removals were all people Ross wanted gone during her tenure. (For its part, CBS denies this was a Kaplan-Fedidia-led ouster, and was merely part of a network-wide restructuring.)

Among those removed? None other than Rob Foreman, the health producer who Ross forced to read an apology to the staff when he dared question one of her decisions. How's that for retaliation?

Not only that, but the senior producer was the show's only black staffer, who was escorted from the building along with the show's only Asian staffer. (CBS assures us this is not the case, and that there are other black and Asian staffers, not just Julie Chen.)

The black producer let go was Anjie Taylor. Jee Won Park is the Asian staffer, who made her hatred of Ross and senior producer Laurye Blackford, cohorts from Good Morning America, well known. (Ross and Blackford were the show's "Mean Girls.")

If you ask CBS, they'll tell you they're moving the show in a different direction and the firings are part of company-wide layoffs. Nevermind that they have double-digit job openings to fill, and everyone who was fired was either over 40 or a minority (CBS says this is untrue).

We're told to expect more blood spilled before someone grabs a mop.

Update: Says CBS in a statement: ""Like many news organizations, print and electronic, CBS News is taking steps to accommodate changes in technology and newsgathering and trying to best utilize our staff. To that end, some open jobs in the division are not going to being filled, some jobs are being redefined, some are being lost and some will be added."

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"The Hudson Hotel bar should have a permanent booth for Early Show going away parties," says a CBS veteran, who reports another two staffers on the network's morning show quit this week, and there are more exits on the way.

It turns out Shelley Ross' departure hasn't been the panacea that brass tried convincing everyone, including the press, it would be. Even with interim executive producer Rick Kaplan at the A.M. helm, we're told "things aren't any better [there]. No former staffers have returned to CBS despite the media plants to the contrary."

So how come problems remain? Because of Ross' "mean girl" confidants are still on the inside, even though, we're told, they're the ones responsible for brandishing the largest, most serrated knives when it came to stabbing her in the back.

And look no farther than former Good Morning America colleague and Early Show EP hopeful Ben Sherwood and CBS VP of talent/development Barbara Fedida, who were both, reportedly, on great terms with Ross to her face, but not when she left the room. (Fedida worked in talent at ABC before CBS poached her.)

Fedida and CBS News chief Sean McManus, meanwhile, are taking heat from staffers for "hand pick[ing] one executive disaster after the next" without repercussion.

And that's easy to do when Les Moonves is asleep at the wheel.