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It's Thursday, and that means it's time for the Public Eye Chat. This week's subjects is "Early Show" anchor Hannah Storm. You can read excerpts, and listen to the full interview, below.

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Brian Montopoli: Can you give me a sense of how things work at the Early Show? You've got a two hour show, which can't leave much time for preparing for every single segment. How do you approach it?

Hannah Storm: What happens is, the night before the show, at about 7:30, the fax machine at my house starts going. They send over all sorts of research information. I call it homework so that my kids can relate to it. It's packets of information about all the segments we're doing the next day. What I try to do is, after I get the kids to bed, from about 8 to 9 I read over all of my research material. Then wake up at 4 the next morning, and on the way in – I've got a pretty long drive, I guess about 45 minutes, 50 minutes – I will start to rework or finish reworking a lot of the questions that I'm going to be asking the next day.

And I will also go through all the papers for anything updated or more in depth on some of the subjects that we're talking about the next day. So usually I have four papers in the car and I will be reading parts of all of those papers. And when you get in, you meet with producers, and you tweak the segments a little more, so actually by the time you go to air, I am really, really prepared for those segments that I'll be doing.

Brian Montopoli: Do you think the "Early Show" has the right mix of hard and soft news?

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This morning, the "Early Show" interviewed Jerry Monaco, his son and their lawyer. The Monaco family recently took a trip to Disney World, where they met Tigger, the exuberant tiger from A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books. Or rather, a Disney "cast member" in a Tigger costume. And that's when the Monaco's horrific experience began.

The Monaco family was posing with Tigger while Jerry filmed them with his video camera. Suddenly, Jerry's teenaged son, Jerry Jr., was "smack[ed] in the face" by Tigger, as "Early Show" anchor Hannah Storm characterized it. Jerry Sr. called the incident a "sucker punch." Jerry Jr., who later "woke up with neck pain," was eventually taken to the hospital for treatment. As of this morning, Jerry Jr. says, "most of the pain is gone 'cause I have medicine."

Here at Public Eye, we've long been opposed to people dressed as fictional characters punching teenagers in the face. But we urge you to watch the video of the incident and decide for yourself what, exactly, Tigger did – the "Early Show" helpfully plays the video over and over during the course of the interview.

We can sort of understand why the "Early Show" had the Monacos on – video footage like this is hard to resist, and the folks at the "Early Show" have a couple hours to fill in the morning. But we'd like to think that we would have brought somewhat more skepticism to the table than Storm, who did not challenge the family's characterization of the incident.

To her credit, Storm did ask, at the end of the interview, what the family was hoping to get from Disney. And while the Monaco's lawyer said only that they want an apology, it's safe to assume that the family is open to compensation. As for the interview, it took place because both sides got something out of it – the "Early Show" was able to run some moderately compelling video, and the Monacos got a platform that allowed them to put pressure on Disney. Everybody, it seems, was a winner. Well, except maybe Tigger. And Disney. And us.

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