KATIE BAR THE DOOR: Anchorwoman not brought into conversations about hiring Rick Kaplan

Drudge Report and NY Slimes ^ | 9 Mar 07 | Drudge and Bill Carter

[SkyPilot]

Rick Kaplan described his new position as the executive producer of the “CBS Evening News” yesterday as “coming home.” He worked on the broadcast in the 1970s when Walter Cronkite was the anchor. But then, he could have said the same thing at almost any television news organization this week.

[SkyPilot]

Enjoy it everyone.

This is a monumental cat fight at See BS.

Mr. Kaplan said, “Everybody is foursquare behind Katie. I don’t have the slightest doubts about Katie’s talent.” He said the key, at a time when news is widely available long before the evening newscast, “is convincing the viewers that you are pushing the stories ahead.”

Yeah, right.

Kaplan is a two faced liberal journalist like Couric, but he is going to make her life hell. He is known as a "bull in a china shop" - meaning he shakes things up. Couric is an out of control News Diva. She has assistants for everything - her hair, her schedule, her food, her shopping, her nails, her clothes, etc, etc. She brought over an army of personal slaves she can order around from NBC and the Today Show when she came to See BS.

Kaplan is going to fire some of them. He is going to dictate orders to Couric, and she is going to explode.

It was Couric's people who leaked this "Katie was not consulted" wounded duck routine to the Washington Compost and the NY Slimes.

[Thrownatbirth]

This is Katie's second public colonoscopy.

[DainBramage]

"Kaplan!!!...you FJB!!!"

[OldFriend]

This is designed to protect her when Kaplan fires everyone in sight.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[mewzilla]

From this link....

Kaplan to Take Helm of 'CBS Evening News'

....The highly competitive CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves would have had to sign off on the change of executive producers. Mr. Moonves personally chose and secured Ms. Couric to lead "Evening News" because of her stardom won in 15 years on NBC's top-ranked "Today" morning show.

[mewzilla]

SHAKEDOWN: CLINTON CALLED MOONVES IN MILLION DOLLAR SITCOM DISPUTE!

[xzins]

I don't watch the dinosaur evening news. I've already seen everything and in more depth far before the 6 oclock hour.

I never watched Couric except accidentally all these years.

I'm still not watching Couric.

[preacher]

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[finnigan2]

".The highly competitive CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves would have had to sign off on the change of executive producers. "

- You can bet that Kaplan just didn't come over to CBS Evening News because he's good at small talk. His REAL terms of reference for the assignment probably came in a one on one private conversation with Moonves in which he was told what he could and couldn't do, who he could fire, who he couldn't touch and what was to be his deadline for sorting out the mess.
I doubt that Perkie Katie's ass is on the line at this point (too much loss of face for Moonves) but Kaplan might get her in his sights if she tries to begin a guerrilla campaign against his changes. First, he would identify her in house sympathizers and weed them out one by one until she had no supporters left in the newsroom and things could only get worse for her from there.
I don't think Perkie has ever run up against a real organization shark like Kaplan before. I've met a few in my time and these guys eat up their opponents just because they can and they enjoy doing it as a form of amusement. Their mindset is almost beyond belief.

[BigLittle]

[mcg2000]

The writing is on the wall! Does anyone have the pool numbers on how long she'd last??

[freeplancer]

Good post and info. I never liked or hated her, but when she decided to wear black the week of the election after Bush won, she really showed a childish lack of class. It sounds like the power trip might be over.

[Jim Noble]

[N. Theknow]

CSX?

Gee, it's code for Couric Sux!

I know. It's the largest railroad on the East Coast made up of many, many fallen flags. See my home page for news of one of those flags.

[fatnotlazy]

The writing is on the wall! Does anyone have the pool numbers on how long she'd last??

***

I'll bet $5 she's gone by summer.

[diverteach]

When are the exec's going to wake up and realize that Couric isn't the problem. Thier ratings will suck no matter who they to produce or anchor the evening news.

The dinosaur media as a whole is in a freefall spiral to it's death and no thanks to Dan Rather helped See BS along it's fall at a faster rate.

[theDentist]

He said the key, at a time when news is widely available long before the evening newscast, “is convincing the viewers that you are pushing the stories ahead.”

No Kap, the key is that you must show the viewers that the news she is presenting is factual and not applied with a liberal tilt.

[VeniVidiVici]

Now, now. Katie is an excellent anchor - around their necks.

[Tolkien]

Kaplan is a liberal kook bomb thrower who has failed at everything he's tried.

It's a perfect fit for seeBS

[hosepipe]

Les Moonbat should be fired..

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

The writing is on the wall! Does anyone have the pool numbers on how long she'd last??

Kaplan is a long-time Clinton supporter, and Katie worships Hitlery, so I doubt she'll get canned until after the election next year. To force her out now would be like CBS admitting, "We screwed the pooch, again...".

[Milwaukee_Guy]

My bet is that Katie will have a co-anchor by mid to late summer. If that doesn't work, she is gone by early 2008.

Her biggest problem IMHO is her complete lack of any serious news credentials and the lack of a "huge" story to pin her her career on.

I cannot imagine her at the next "big disaster". Can you imagine her dressed in body armor, a Fritz helmet and a gas mask?

And a perky smile? :-O

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Somebody, I forget who, described Kaplan as the Bob Shrum of network news. Shrum's candidates always lose. Kaplan's destroyed every news division he's ever run, though with SeeBS, he won't have much work to do, as they're already a disaster area, even before Rather ran his "Fake but accurate" story.

[Fawn]

Thanks for the good news. I hope he knocks her down to size.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

Replace Katie with Ann!

[sine_nomine]

Closing line, "And that's the way it's going to be, faggots and ragheads."

[Dick Bachert]

You mean like this?

In an effort to salvage her sagging CBS ratings, Katie produced yet another special based on her nationally televised, award-winning (the prestigious Sphincter Cup) colonoscopy of several years ago.

Unfortunately, so much of the footage was found to contain images such as the still seen here that it was rendered unusable and the project had to be s**tcanned.

Katie told interviewers later that this is how she spends much of her free time as this is where she gets some of her best program ideas. She cited her interview with Hillary Clinton as a prime example.

And whenever I stumble across this bubble-head while surfing, these lyrics start running through my head:

I make my living off the evening news Just give me something-something I can use People love it when you lose, They love dirty laundry

Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear Come and whisper in my ear Give us dirty laundry

Kick ‘em when they’re up Kick ‘em when they’re down Kick ‘em when they’re up Kick ‘em when they’re down Kick ‘em when they’re up Kick ‘em when they’re down Kick ‘em when they’re up Kick ‘em all around

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who Comes on at five She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam In her eye Its interesting when people die- Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet? You know, the boys in the newsroom got a Running bet Get the widow on the set! We need dirty laundry

You don’t really need to find out what’s going on You don’t really want to know just how far its gone Just leave well enough alone Eat your dirty laundry

Kick ‘em when they’re up Kick ‘em when they’re down Kick ‘em when they’re up Kick ‘em when they’re down

Kick ‘em when they’re up Kick ‘em when they’re down Kick ‘em when they’re stiff Kick ‘em all around

Dirty little secrets Dirty little lies We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie We love to cut you down to size We love dirty laundry

We can do the innuendo We can dance and sing When its said and done we haven’t told you a thing We all know that crap is king Give us dirty laundry!

“Dirty Laundry” by Don Henley

[The Great RJ]

Couric will crash and burn when the ratings continue to tank.

[Suzy Quzy]

Kaplan....the Bob Schrum of TV.

[mewzilla]

Les Moonbat should be fired..

But he won't be. It pays to have low friends in high places.

[Suzy Quzy]

That is NOT a real picture....is it?

[newcthem]

But Couric wasn't the problem.........Perky Katy was the Answer..................Right?

[EndWelfareToday]

I don’t have the slightest doubts about Katie’s talent.

What talent? Is she a News anchor or an entertainer?

[Polyxene]

"My bet is that Katie will have a co-anchor by mid to late summer. If that doesn't work, she is gone by early 2008."

I was thinking the same thing! Any guesses as to who it might be?

[Noumenon]

"I don’t have the slightest doubts about Katie’s talent..."

Neither do we...

[SkyPilot]

[SkyPilot]

And yes, that stuff on her head is what you think it is.

[fatnotlazy]

"What talent? Is she a News anchor or an entertainer?"

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That's what's wrong with Katie. She's ok when she's interviewing (read: "mooning over") some celeb. But for hard news -- she can't cut it. She's like Larry King -- he can't do hard news either.

[machogirl]

i don't understand why they think that it is monumental that katie wasn't "consulted", she's just the hired help

[machogirl]

i'm sure that she would love to have rush by her side

[SkyPilot]

i don't understand why they think that it is monumental that katie wasn't "consulted", she's just the hired help

See BS is afraid of her. They wanted her "ratings bonanza" from the morning gabfest lightweight Today Show. However, that audience didn't translate to the nightly news.

The Today Show audience was single mother divorced and/or unmarried liberal women.

The network nightly news shows audience (which is sinking like a stone) are older liberal, Americans (mostly over 50). Take of look at their commercials sometime: AARP, pharmaceutical ads, cars seniors like to drive, retirement community, cruise lines that cater to seniors, etc, etc.

[Polyxene]

heh, heh, heh! Rush would blow her away!

[Beckwith]

Absolutely, positively must listen to this song about Katie Couric reading the news in the nude.

http://newsbusters.org/media/CBSCouricSong.mp3

[bray]

About like replacing the captain after the ship hit the iceberg! Happy Sailing.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Lijahsbubbe]

"By there!"

[Uncle Hal]

How long before Katie implodes?

[SkyPilot]

Thanks - that was a funny MP3!