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Katie Couric on the way out at CBS?
Matthew Sheffield at Newsbusters writes about the possibility La Couric could be out of a job with CBS by the time the 2008 elections are over, and points to this piece from the Philly Inquirer which gives us some specifics on the speculation:
CBS executives deny it, but there’s a growing feeling within the network that Katie Couric is an expensive, unfixable mistake.
So unfixable that Couric – the first woman to anchor a network nightly newscast solo – may leave CBS Evening News, probably after the 2008 presidential elections, to assume another role at the network, CBS sources say.
Despite her A-list celebrity, her $15 million salary, and a promotional blitz worthy of a Super Bowl, the former star of NBC’s Today has failed to move the Nielsen needle on No. 3 Evening News since her debut seven months ago.
In a bottom-line business like television, that’s a cardinal sin. Already-low morale in the news division is dropping, says a veteran correspondent there.
“It’s a disaster. Everybody knows it’s not working. CBS may not cut her loose, but I guarantee you, somebody’s thinking about it. We’re all hunkered down, waiting for the other shoe to drop.”
Seven correspondents, producers and executives at CBS and other networks interviewed for this story spoke on condition of anonymity, given the sensitive nature of the Couric situation.
Couric and CBS were a bad fit from the start.
“From the moment she walked in here, she held herself above everybody else,” says a CBS staffer. “We had to live up to her standards. . . . CBS has never dealt in this realm of celebrity before.”
Is it just Couric who is the problem or CBSNews’ credibility in general? Rathergate didn’t exactly do wonders for CBS’ credibility, and as Ken Shepherd points out in Sheffield’s post, a CBS producer – Melissa McNamara – was fired recently after it was discovered that she plagiarized an article from the Wall Street Journal for a special “Notebook” vlog segment Couric did on the decline of the library in the Internet age.
Is it Couric or CBS’ crediblity issues – or both? I tend to lean towards the credibility issues myself.
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“Fake But Accurate” really only sold with Rather.
Couric is just, Fake.
Couric is just, Fake.
No no no…Fake but Perky!
Okay, so yer both correct!
Katie’s not fake. She is just in over her head. She is the same perky, cute, twit she has always been.
What rubbish! CBS – like the rest of the MSM – is composed largely of selfish, arrogant, empty-headed egomaniacs. The Queen is no different.
But she’s got great legs!
I had this story about the lovely Miss Couric and her plagairized “notebook,” and my favorite moonbats turned the comment thread into “there’s no proof the documents were forged.” One pretty much used the “fake but accurate” line.
CBS was in third place well before Miss Couric was hired; she was a bandaid that CBS News hoped would cover up their other problems, and it simply didn’t work. But their problem isn’t that I don’t watch the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, it’s that I don’t watch the 1830 network news period.
Thirty years ago, the three evening news shows were our choices, period, for news before the next morning’s newspaper. Now, I get the news all day long, as I want it, when I want it, via the internet. It isn’t Katie Couric that’s the problem; it’s that the whole format is dying.
Katie Couric isn’t pretty. There are so many pretty women out there that could do her job. Channel 13 in my area has Lauren Sanchez and Maria Quiban. I like watching these 2. Plus Lauren is funny. Check out the link below and click on thier individual picture.
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Dana: D.E.A.D. not dying. Withering since the 70’s and blooms not!
I couldn’t be happier that perky katie may get the boot and that cbs is still # 3.
YOU REEP WHAT YOU SOW.
Cry me a river. !!!!!
I think the problem is more in Couric Land than anywhere else. After Rather, the ratings picked up when Bob Sheiffer took over, rose briefly the first week or two that Ms. Couric was on, and have dwindled since. She is simply not the stuff anchors are made of. And that has nothing to do with her sex. She lacks presence; she lacks an aura. For a look at somebody who has both of those, check out CNN’s new morning anchor, Kiran Chetry, who manages to portray seriousness despite her impossible beauty.
I’m sure that Gail Shister’s story is accurate, and that Les Moonves will change anchors after the 2008 elections. Lara Logan will probably replace her.
Because: let’s face it, folks. The nightly network news is for people who actually answer their phones even when their caller-id panel says OUT OF AREA or UNAVAILABLE. I.e., the same people who actually talk to pollsters watch these dinosaur newscasts.
With Lara Logan, Mr. Moonves will be able to begin the grand transformation from dinos to birds. Or at least try.
Leslie wrote:
You mean that überliberal CNN hired a Fo
y) News anchor? 