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By Brian Montopoli

June 25, 2007 / 1:32 PM EDT / CBS News

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You know, we really don't write enough about Paris Hilton here. So! Here's your daily dose of Paris commentary, courtesy of a (maybe just a tiny bit sarcastic) Bob Schieffer:

Face The Nation did not get the big interview with Paris Hilton.
I feel terrible about it.
I haven't felt so low since one of our competitors broke into programming to report that the embalming of Anna Nicole Smith's body had begun. Getting scooped on a big story is never fun, not then, not ever. And we never got to first base on that story either, which is why we tried to be competitive on this one.
We held strategy sessions on how to stay ahead on the Paris story. In the finest network tradition, we blamed each other for not getting the interview. We even leaked the infighting to competitors. But nothing worked.
All those big-time bookers dangled all those deals in front of Paris' family, and we were just out of our league. Heck, we couldn't even figure out what league we were in.

Read it all here.