Bill Carter and Jacques Steinberg, in this morning's Times:

NBC’s dominance in television’s evening news race is undergoing its most serious challenge in a decade as “World News” on ABC scored its second ratings victory in the last three weeks. The figures highlight the slow but steady ascent of the veteran ABC newsman Charles Gibson toward the top position among news anchors.

In what is being widely interpreted as fallout from the shifting ratings picture, NBC has made plans to replace the executive producer of the network’s “Nightly News With Brian Williams,” according to several NBC executives.

Oh, wait, where did we hear that before?

Oh, right, on Radar's website. Two days ago.

It looks like NBC is so rattled by Charles Gibson's second week on top in the evening news race that heads are starting to roll: Radar hears that Nightly News With Brian Williams executive producer John Reiss, who got a very public dressing down from the affable anchor in the NBC newsroom earlier this month, has been shown the door.

C'mon, kittens. We know the NYT is self-important and all, but let's leave the "pick up someone else's scoop, then confirm it with our own sources" to the tabloids, shall we? (Or, at least, the LAT.)