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. . .before her contract is up. . .?
Couric may exit CBS News before contract ends: report
. . .The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric, said on Wednesday she could leave her job as anchor of the low-rated "CBS Evening News" well before her contract expires in 2011.
CBS and Couric both issued statements downplaying the Journal story while stopping short of an outright denial.
The report comes as CBS continues to lag in third place in the network news ratings, far behind NBC and ABC, 19 months after Couric's much ballyhooed debut as the first woman solo anchor of a major U.S. evening newscast -- for a salary reportedly worth $15 million a year. . .
the MISSING LINK to the whole story. . .
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I don't dislike her, but she's not the woman for the job.
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Not that the evening entertainment "news" matters anymore but for CBS's bottom line of advertiser dollars, this move cannot happen too soon. Katie's persona is not evening-newsworthy, unfortunately.
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It's a sad scene. She should never have been put in that position: she's not a reporter. She is, as they say in the UK, merely a presenter. For all his faults, at least Dan Rather was an actual reporter and a good one until his ego got the better of his judgement. CBS had a good thing going when Bob Schieffer was anchoring: ratings were up and he was very good. But still they dumped him for Little Miss Sunshine.
Roger Mudd was interviewed the other day on the News Hour on PBS. I had forgotten that he left CBS to work for NBC soon after Rather was given the anchor position on the CBS Evening News, replacing Walter Cronkite. In retrospect, CBS would have been better off choosing Mudd.
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[quote Don Kiyoti]It's a sad scene. She should never have been put in that position: she's not a reporter. She is, as they say in the UK, merely a presenter. For all his faults, at least Dan Rather was an actual reporter and a good one until his ego got the better of his judgement. CBS had a good thing going when Bob Schieffer was anchoring: ratings were up and he was very good. But still they dumped him for Little Miss Sunshine.
Roger Mudd was interviewed the other day on the News Hour on PBS. I had forgotten that he left CBS to work for NBC soon after Rather was given the anchor position on the CBS Evening News, replacing Walter Cronkite. In retrospect, CBS would have been better off choosing Mudd.
Ha ha. Put in that position? You make it sound like she was forced to take the job and the $10m or whatever that went with it or she'd be blacklisted forever. Feel not sorry for Miss K. Couric or CBS news. She'll be just fine, CBS will be just fine. The nightly news is a dinosaur anyway.
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[quote Chupa Chupa][quote Don Kiyoti]It's a sad scene. She should never have been put in that position: she's not a reporter. She is, as they say in the UK, merely a presenter. For all his faults, at least Dan Rather was an actual reporter and a good one until his ego got the better of his judgement. CBS had a good thing going when Bob Schieffer was anchoring: ratings were up and he was very good. But still they dumped him for Little Miss Sunshine.
Roger Mudd was interviewed the other day on the News Hour on PBS. I had forgotten that he left CBS to work for NBC soon after Rather was given the anchor position on the CBS Evening News, replacing Walter Cronkite. In retrospect, CBS would have been better off choosing Mudd.
Ha ha. Put in that position? You make it sound like she was forced to take the job and the $10m or whatever that went with it or she'd be blacklisted forever. Feel not sorry for Miss K. Couric or CBS news. She'll be just fine, CBS will be just fine. The nightly news is a dinosaur anyway.
You misunderstood. Maybe I should have written, "She should never have been put in that chair." Or, "She should never have been given that postition." Does the rest of my post really make it sound like I feel sorry for her?
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OK makes more sense. When you wrote "she should have never been put in that position," I read that to mean she was boxed into the situation, not "she shouldn't have been offered the job."
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Though I can't fault her for trying to move up in the world, she should've stayed where she was on the Today Show. I can't stand that Meredith Vieira.
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[quote Don Kiyoti]CBS had a good thing going when Bob Schieffer was anchoring: ratings were up and he was very good. But still they dumped him for Little Miss Sunshine.
I heard rumors that Schieffer did not want the main anchor job long term and they sort of rushed to fill the spot with Couric.
