Bob was a thousand times better than Katie... I don't know what the hell the people at CBS were thinking...
Take a person whos made a career being a perky puff piece... and put her in the anchor chair... then continue bias reporting that got you in trouble in the first place and turn the show into even more fluff....
CBS just refuses to admit its problems. Bob was doing well in the chair, and if the powers that be had a clue they would have worked at even handed reporting and stopped making sure every time they did a story no matter what it was... going out and finding the 1 person who objected to to it no matter how insane they were and giving that view point "equal time" as though some sole nuts opinion weighs as much as the lifetime pros in the area of interest being reported on.
A report on ANWAR and the economic effects it would have to drill there on the Innuit doesn't need to have 1/3 of the time dedicated to stupid envirowackos claims of a pipeline ruining the land.....
etc etc etc...
I stand by my offer CBS.. give me complete control of your news division for 6 months.. I'll work for $1 and if you ratings aren't equal or higher than they are now, I'll walk... if they are though, I want $20 Mill on the spot. YOu have to give me complete autonomy.. hiring, firing, editorial etc etc etc... No undermining, no backstabbing.... etc.
That's a bit like asking a scorpion not to sting isn't it?
Agreed.
I liked Schieffer.
I rarely watch his nightly newscast, but that's because they overdosed on liberal propaganda. Had they just dialed back their partisanship and kept him in the anchor chair, I'd have watched fairly regularly.
Katie's a lightweight that CBS thinks has enough star power to lift its network. No, people like the chemistry between Katie & Matt and were accustomed to watching Today. Plus she used to be more perky then bitter. Well, she doesn't have the Today show. She doesn't have Matt. She's no longer perky, and her legs don't really belong on Nightly news.
So what's left is an aging Leftist that offers nothing distinct from the other two networks.
Next up, Martha Stewart sitting in for Katie Couric. Have your pens and pads ready, girls, ther'll be loads of tips for your holiday baking coming right up after these wonderful messages from our sponsors...........
Let's not jump on the Bob is better bandwagon yet.He still had the sneering look,the raised eyebrow and the eye roll every time Bush,republican ,or conservative came up in the course of the "newscast".I also would remind you that he's still a good friend of Dan and always shows his subtle bias on fake the nation.Want a real news cast watch Brit.