ATHENS, Ga., March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Peabody Awards will present its third Peabody-Smithgall Lecture on the theme "The Media and Public Life" at 4 p.m. on April 11, in Room 101 of the University of Georgia's Miller Learning Center.

An estimated 22,000 lives could have been saved if the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) removed the drug Trasylol from the market two years ago when evidence emerged implicating the drug in thousands of deaths.

By Peter Johnson 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley was once on a short list of candidates to replace Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News -- until CBS executives set their eye on NBC Today star Katie Couric. Then his and other names suddenly disappeared from the list.

By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK - Faced with the need to replace Ed Bradley in the middle of the TV season, "60 Minutes" won't even bother.