Posted on 03/21/2011 7:14:18 PM PDT by Signalman
Katie Couric’s position at CBS News has come under question recently as reports have indicated both that their head anchorwoman may be looking for another home or that the network is attempting to significantly reduce her pay. And now resident media man at The O’Reilly Factor and veteran analyst Bernie Goldberg is betting his hat on it: “As anchorwoman of the CBS News, when her contract is out, she is gone.”
The discussion came up at the tail end of a segment on the President’s approval ratings and the Libya situation– a much more politics-heavy Weekday with Bernie than his usual media fare– but concluded with Bill O’Reilly asking Goldberg to predict Couric’s future at the network. “She’s gone,” he replied flatly, suggesting that, since the “only reason” CBS hired her and played her a hefty salary to work with them was “to get the ratings up”– a routine uphill battle for the CBS Evening News, the network has little interest in keeping her around. The prediction came as, once again, O’Reilly suggested Goldberg was an oracle. “I say this without fear of being wrong: as the anchorwoman of the CBS News, when her contract is out, she is gone.”
O’Reilly, noting that Goldberg was merely speculating, wondered whether he had some special inside info. “Did they ask you to replace her yet?” he joked.
The segment via Fox News below:
After the first few weeks, when all the hype finally wore off, the ratings have continued to erode. The problem is, that no matter how nice you try to be when you are reading a teleprompter, your personality still comes though and Katie Couric is a self-centered little bitch.
What? No more dirty dancing photo’s?
I wonder do the Islamic alarm clocks she bought her daughters, still work?
As an early riser, I schedule her disgusting ‘notebook’ crap for the shower.
Let it be true!
LOL. I am just about ready to leave the house when her notebook segment come on.
Really and truly. She worked as a hostess, though not very hard.
Here comes Larry King, or maybe Rodney?
Not really - she wasn't there very long. I didn't like her; she had zero sense of humor and an attitude. The store manager, Charley, was a take-no-crap sort who fired a lot of people as a matter of course. I was the lead assistant manager running the night shift, and wasn't involved in her termination.
In retrospect, it's a pity I never asked her out, just for the story value.
I'm thinking Bill Maher.
the “only reason” CBS hired her and payed her a hefty salary to work with them was “to get the ratings up”
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Quite the rocket scientist Bernie is. Really? Does that mean that sometimes folks are hired to bring the ratings down?
Why else would someone be promoted to that position?
Word from friends and fiends on west 57th.... "Ho Hum....."
The newest “act” in town is Sawyer. When PJ ran the ABC shop, he was in every day by 10:00 AM to put his stamp on WNT.
Sawyer and her posse of agents, hair dressers, makeup people, dressers, note takers, secretaries, bodyguards, boot lickers, are all in by 3:30.... unless they might be delayed.....
Oooops
So I was off by 5 years...... :)
Word from friends and fiends on west 57th.... “Ho Hum.....”
The newest “act” in town is Sawyer. When PJ ran the ABC shop, he was in every day by 10:00 AM to put his stamp on WNT.
Sawyer and her posse of agents, hair dressers, makeup people, dressers, note takers, secretaries, bodyguards, boot lickers, are all in by 3:30.... unless they might be delayed.....
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