KATIE COURIC HAS BEEN APPROACHED ABOUT CBS NEWS ANCHOR JOB (Time via Drudge)

DrudgeReport (from Time) ^ | 1/16/2005 | Various

[maggief]

Queer Eye for the CBS News Guy

;-)

[harpo11]

I'd recommend Barbara Streisand.

Simply because her initials are so very well agreeable for the BS in CBS.

[jennyjenny]

They have to get Brit Hume, or I'm not watching.

[BonnieJ]

Perky national and world news nightly!

[Izzy Dunne]

Rising star.... That's funny.

Hey - if your ship is sinking with all hands - the guy who is treading water looks like a rising star...

[Izzy Dunne]

If they want to rebuild integrity, they need John Stossel

Have you seen the least little hint about them caring about integrity?

[Tacis]

Even if she did it topless, she (nor none of the others) can not stop the death spiral that confronts what CBS calls it's "news" programming. Even if it were "news," even if it were not flamming leftist, neocommunist progaganda most of the time, it can not compete with cable. As the geezers die off, CBS "news" will wither and die. It's future forgeries, extreme bias, and pranks to improve status will turn it into the National Enquirer of the airwaves before it crashes and is replaced by an hour of local news.

[LauraleeBraswell]

I second that JOHN STOSSEL!

but anyway I never trust Drudge.

[nothingnew]

If they want to rebuild integrity, they need John Stossel...IMHO.

Would be a good move.

SeeBS, if you're lurking, note that some dei-hard conservatives on this thread say they would watch your news if Stossel anchors. (I won't...don't have TV)

Wake up, Neanderthal News.

FMCDH(BITS)

[TomGuy]

Agatha Christie comes to mind. Ten Little Indians

CBS should run a reality 'survivor' program -- last one standing gets the anchor desk.

This may play out like the Dem primary: First there were 10, then 9, then 10 again. Some dropped out, some just went nuts; and the Dems just settled for an 'anyone but Bush' candidate. CBS will end up with ABB -- Anybody but Brit.

Maybe they could entice FoxNews's Chris Wallace???????? [Dream on....]

[Goldwater4ever]

Good to see the CBS Comedy Hour will continue.
This is a train wreck which I will bring my popcorn to.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Only because Ethel Rosenberg is dead.

And Pol Pot. They can't get Fidel either. He's firm that anything less than three hours of him forced on all Americans at gunpoint is a deal breaker.

[Lazamataz]

Katie Couric A network source tells TIME the Today Show co-anchor has been approached about the job.

THAT'll fix the liberal bias at CBS.

CBS: A wholly-owned subsidiary of the DNC.

[Lazamataz]

I thought they said they were going to be "fair and balanced."

Perhaps Helen Thomas will un-retire for them.

[Imaverygooddriver]

Couric replacing Rather. Like fixing a broken parachute with a ton of lead.

[Howlin]

Cooper has done a great job for CNN with their tsunami coverage.

And he doesn't seem to consider himself the be all end all of news correspondents.

From what I've seen, he does straight news.

[dfwgator]

Why don't they just hire Michael Moore and get it over with?

[Imaverygooddriver]

[Howlin]

Especially after his fingerprints were found in the Rathergate Memo Disaster...

What's that about?

Anderson Cooper, no...will all the baggage about his personal preferences....

Meaning what?

[MindBender26]

This story is totally clueless for another reason too.

All non-CBSers named are under contract elsewhere. There will be no "interim" 16-month anchor. Demographics will drive a younger while male.

The pencil geek who wrote is simply reporting rumors.

CBS and super-agent Kenny Leibner will "decide" who the replacement will be.. and that will be that.

In many ways it will be meaningless, because within 60 months, TV network news as we know it will be gone.