HOWARD KURTZ ON CABLE TV:

Anna Nicole was back in the news yesterday with the official finding that she died from an accidental overdose, and you could almost hear the groaning from television producers that there wasn’t a more controversial outcome.

The press conference by the thick-accented medical examiner — who almost seemed from central casting — could not be covered by the cable networks, of course, without a cascade of split-screen pictures of the onetime stripper shaking her booty for the cameras. If you banned that footage, I believe the coverage would drop by 80 percent.

At least.