With his centerpiece being replacing one biased Leftist with another, perkier one. Great plan.
Posted on 07/03/2006 10:53:23 AM PDT by abb
NEW YORK -- Desks, computers and chairs have been stripped from the newsroom that was Dan Rather's backdrop on the "CBS Evening News," with workers in the first stage of a makeover that will welcome Katie Couric when she starts in September.
It also offers an easy metaphor for what Sean McManus has been doing in the seven months since assuming the presidency of CBS News.
He's in the first stages of rebuilding a legendary news organization beaten down by years of scandal and failure. They involve steps both large and small: from ending Rather's CBS career and getting Mike Wallace to utter the word "retire," to e-mailing correspondents with critiques of their reports.
Mostly, he's tried to convince his team that CBS is serious about competing with NBC and ABC to win, both journalistically and in the ratings.
"It's a big organization," said McManus, 51. "I'm sure there are people who were very comfortable with the way it was done. The fact was it needed to be energized. It needed to be confirmed to everyone that being No. 3 was not acceptable."
While it's too early to predict success, the message is getting through.
advertising "It's like we're on Red Bull," said Susan Zirinsky, "48 Hours Mysteries" executive producer. "You walk in in the morning and you get a Red Bull at the door."
McManus, longtime CBS Sports president, kept that job when appointed by CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves to replace Andrew Heyward last November. McManus is a TV industry lifer - the son of legendary ABC sportscaster Jim McKay.
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With his centerpiece being replacing one biased Leftist with another, perkier one. Great plan.
Wouldn't want communications from those computers to fall into the wrong hands...
"McManus is a TV industry lifer - the son of legendary ABC sportscaster Jim McKay."
Why the different last names?
When cBS news goes from third place to 5th place, will this qualify McManus for the "dumba$$ of the year" award, or will that one be reserved for Danny -boy Rather? I can't wait for the perky one to drop the ratings for cBS even more after her initial bump is hyped to the max. She is a bomb just waiting to go off, and it will happen, sooner than later. Remember Connie Chung, and how she was going to energize their news show? Instead, she damn near destroyed it before they fired her sorry butt! Bye-bye Connie and Katie....
If See-BS bothered to review the documents and emails on those computers I'll bet they'd find Dan & company up to their eyeballs in lovefests with fellow leftist moonbats. Maybe they'd even find some of the origins of the "Rathergate" depravity........ but they don't really care about cleaning up their act, it's more business as usual.
I'm not so cavalier about CBS News' changes. Since Rather left, CBS News' Nielsen ratings are up significantly.
For example, Fox News' top rated program, The O'Reilly Factor averages 2 million viewers per night while CBS News, even in third place among the network news shows averages 5.5 million viewers and yes the overwhelming majority of Americans now have at least basic cable tv service where they can get both Fox News as well as the broadcast networks.
18 million viewers a night get their tv news from the big three.
Fox News Channel is in tenth place among cable networks, CBS is in first place among broadcast networks.
Your title says it all. The only question in my mind is, "When will it finally sink?"
Jim McKay was truly the BS-King of sports announcing.
Heaven forfend if he should take a break from his ramblings about the personal lives of the participants to spend any time on the sporting event itself.
I remember a classic case where ABC was presenting a triathlon and had pre-determined which woman was going to win. Oh how he waxed poetically about her ...
... until she ran out of steam a mile before the finish line and was easily passed by some other woman whom ABC had neglected to inform us about.
I imagine the apple won't fall far from the tree.
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Katie Couric is the great white hope for the democrats as the uberliberal mouthshill on national news prior to the elections.
She's wayyyy overpaid and undertalented. I guess most of us decided long ago to err on the side of conscience rather than shill like a carney barker for a living.
McManus is the real family name.
I am going to have to pull out my dictionary for more SUPERLATIVES to describe your graphics.
Strange that the 'sparkler' message isn't showing up.
The next day I saw Charles Johnson's animation of the fake memo morphing into the computer-printed version, and I knew Buckhead was right. What a thrill.
I will tell my grandchildren about the bitter, crushing defeat that a few ordinary individuals inflicted on the entire antique media. CBS is but a shell of its former self. I spit on their grave.
-ccm
I thought Fox was number one in cable news.
TNT was the No. 1 basic-cable network in primetime for the week ending April 30, with a 2.1 Nielsen Media Research rating.
It was followed by USA Network (2.1 rating); Disney Channel (1.8); Cartoon Network, Nick at Nite and TBS (1.4 each); Lifetime, ESPN and Fox News Channel (1.3 each); and Hallmark Channel (1.1).
Nickelodeon won the total-day race with a 1.8 rating, followed by Nick at Nite, TNT and Disney (1.2); and USA, ESPN and Cartoon (1.0 each).
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6330731.html
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