[MindBender26]

>the bidding war for Couric

This is really Rather 2.0. Rather's agent, Kenny Leibner, kept threatening CBS that he would take Rather to ABC's anchor chair if CBS didn't boot Cronkite in favor of Rather.

ABC played along because they knew Jennings would beat Rather any day.

So Walter goes adios and Delusional Dan takes over.

Couric's agent, Alan Berger, who works with Superagent Michael Ovitz just played the same game again.... just with a new group of idiots.

Lester the Loser Moonves' wife Julie Chen loved it, because it gave everyone another woman to blame for CBS submarining ratings.

[Miss Marple]

Interesting story. I didn't know the background on how Rather got his job...it was so long ago, and my kids were at home and I was not paying attention to much then.